May 10, 'Tue story of the arrangement'' made for Old Bill's declining' years leads one to the reflexion, not for the first time, that the destiny of animals is just as strange and unaccountable that of.human beings, One Old Bill's owners, it will be remembered, lives alongside Lord Rosebery, near Epsom, and the latter has become so much interested in the pony's career that he has asked to be allowed to' give him a home in the paddocks of the Durdans when he is too' old to race any more. Why, should this one pony out of the hundreds that come down from Mongolia every year be thus singled out for favour and dis tinction? Why has the racing: public so entirely taken him toits heart, that when he canters out to the start, cheers break out all along the rails? Other. ponies have had records equally: wonderful and more. s0, Black: berry, Cotswold, Marengo, Bornite. But they—_ never captivated popular imagination quite as Old Bill has done. Furthermore, destiny does nob necessarily depend on physical' ability to do a certain thing. better than competitors. would be possible, up to point, to breed A 1 men and animals -instead of C 8's. But:
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