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From Hell to Heaven

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The Marquis of Alchester is furious when his horse in the Derby Stakes of 1831 finishes in a dead heat, purely because of the unsporting behaviour of the rival horse’s owner, the Earl of Branscombe. The Marquis is doubly incensed when he hears that the Earl is arrogantly talking about marrying his Ward, who is an immensely wealthy heiress and he needs her riches to support his extravagant lifestyle. Bent on revenge, the Marquis visits an orphanage on his estate in search of an orphan waif he can pass of as his Ward and marry her to the unsuspecting Earl who has never the real Ward. Plucked from the hell of starvation and abuse at the hands of a wicked matron, the beautiful young Kistna is in Heaven at the Marquis’s magnificent house and soon finds that she is falling in love. But it seems inevitable that she is condemned to hell after all when the Marquis breaks her heart by offering her hand to the unpleasant and grasping Earl of Branscombe.

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AUTHOR’S NOTE
AUTHOR’S NOTEA dead heat at the Derby Stakes begins this tale of love and hate, misery and happiness. There have actually been two dead heats at the ‘Blue Riband of the Turf’, the greatest horse race in the world. In 1828 the Duke of Rutland’s Cadland dead heated with The Colonel owned by the Hon. Edward Petre. Under the then rules of racing this dead heat was run off later in the afternoon and Cadland won. One of the most historic Derby’s ever run took place in 1884. At the spring meeting at Newmarket Prince Batthyany was in a high state of excitement as Galliard, a son of his much loved Galopin was expected to win the Two Thousand Guineas. However, the strain was too much for the Prince, who had a fatal heart attack as he entered the Jockey Club luncheon rooms. His death undoubtedly altered the course of Turf history, as the classic nominations of his colt St. Simon was thereby rendered void according to the rule that then existed. St. Simon proved to be the greatest racehorse he had ever owned and certainly the greatest sire ever known to the English Turf. There is no doubt that he would have won the 1884 Derby. In his absence the race resulted in a dead heat between Sir John Willoughby’s Harvester and Mr. John Hammond’s St, Gatien. The Stewards gave the owners the opportunity of having a run off or dividing the race and they unanimously decided to divide the prize money between them.

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