England, 1875. Lovely, impetuous Aldora rejects the advances of the dashing and rakish Duke of Wydeminster until a close encounter with disaster gives her new insight into her feelings.

Driving to the Goodwood races the Duke of Wydeminster throught with satisfaction that his team of horses was the most outstanding that he had ever owned.

Once again, he told himself, he had been proved right, having bought them as foals at a sale held by one of his friends, when the majority of buyers had not considered them worth a second glance.

The Duke however with his expert eye....