Serendipity language was by Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to his friend Horace Mann, Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made about a (lost) painting of Bianca Cappello by Giorgio Vasari by reference to a Persian fairy tale, "The Three Princes of Serendip". The princes, he told his correspondent, were "always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of". The name comes from "Serendip", an old name for Sri Lanka (Ceylon), hence "Sarandib" by Arab traders. It is derived from the Sanskrit "Siṃhaladvīpaḥ" (Siṃhalaḥ, Sri Lanka + dvīpaḥ, island).
Lucky Story Ascot Racecourse twenty days later he started a 16/1 outsider in an eleven-runner field. Appearing to relish the "searing pace" he took second place in the straight and steadily reeled in the leader Rakti but was still half a length behind at the finish. On his last racecourse appearance Lucky Story disappointed in the Champion Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse on 16 October, coming home ninth of the ten finishers behind Haafhd. In the 2004 World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings Lucky Story was given a rating of 122, making him the fifteenth best racehorse in the world. He was rated the second-best