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 three-year-old trained in Britain, two pounds behind Haafhd and equal to the Epsom Derby winner North Light. Lucky Story was retired to become a breeding stallion at Tweenhills Farm in Gloucestershire. He died in his paddock of a suspected heart attack in 12 May 2010. The stud's director said "We found Lucky Story dead this morning after what would appear sudden death in his sleep. Thankfully there was no sign whatsoever that he had suffered". The best of his offspring was Art Connoisseur who won the Golden Jubilee Stakes in 2009. His other foals included Lucky Kristale (Lowther Stakes), Annecdote