last night. >> i joke about the horse part but the sports part is so real. what is it about the mixture of competition, what you just said, the desired or required precision and the relationships here, these women who are so talented and forging this bond? >> mike? >> well, we've got two horses, two women but one goal. to make it to the paris olympics and then you -- and these horses become -- ari, they become characte in this book. my daughter has been doing this since she was 10 years old and you can give the horse the greatest ride in the world and if you catch one rail, you're out. so there is that tension you get in gymnastics or watching a figure skater try to make a landing, knowing that if she doesn't stick the landing, that she blows her chance at a gold medal and what we try to do in this book seriously is put you