Although he couldn't afford Zara, he bought her nevertheless, hoping she would breed him winners - foals that would restore the fortune of the Yorkshire stud where he bred and trained racehorses. Zara was born a winner: she had to be raced. Richard was determined that she should race so - despite personal crises, caused by his reckless wife, by a snowstorm that isolated the stud only a few days before Zara was due to run, and by an accident to her jockey - he had to find a way to let Zara prove her ability.