7/7 The Mares of Merryland Chase

There's a game where one posts the seventh line of the seventh page of the seventh chapter of a novel.

The seventh chapter of The Mares of Merryland Chase is six pages, so here are the 7th sentence of Chapter 7 (Work it out and You'll be Fit)  and also the 7th paragraph.

Smiley has gone to work as a groom for the Mares of Merryland Chase. They are not nice mares...

The Mare who had grabbed her was a plump bay with a black mane and tail and a shiny brown coat.

One of the other Mares, a golden palomino with a white mane, snickered. ‘One can always try, Neighdene.’