"I-" Avery was about to drop that his sister had the horse skills, but how did that sound compared to literally horse whispering? What if Hope's horses secretly hated doing jumping? And he didn't know about learning music, but he didn't wanna crush Lyra's dreams right at the dinner table. So he shrugged and said, "You can try," doubting even the best teacher would be able to sort his musical ability out.
And when was the day, anyway?
"Are there many horse gods?" he asked instead, because that was a way in to finding out more on that topic instead of talking about himself.