But her thoughts were not on the drawing but on the horse-riding she had done that afternoon. She had ridden on Cricket again, the horse she had ridden on the week before. She liked Cricket, and she was a mare, a female horse. Cricket obeyed well, and she would trot almost immediately, not at all like Freckles, the horse Mailys had ridden the week before. Even so, Cricket is a funny name for a horse! As her thoughts brought her back to her drawing, she looked at it. she had drawn the queen sitting and holding the reins of a horse! "I can't wait until next week" She said with a smile.