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FROM LOWLY TOIL TO RACING SUCCESS. Enthusiastic breeders of thoroughbreds were starth-d a decade or two ago by the race course deeds of a horse whose dam was rescued from between the shafts of a milk cart. Romantic as were the circumstances atC nding that animal, they pale into insignificance before the careers of two present-day steeplechasers, Denmark and Kenley. The former, before he was put into training, went the monotonous rounds synonymous with the callings of ■ butcher, whilst those who witnessed the dogged manner in which Kenley struggled to dispose of the attentions of Cliev.ly in the I.laby Selling Steeplechase at Leicester would hardly imagine that the gallant old chestnut was once performing the duties of an ordinary Lswdoa hansom cabber. He was bought in 1h • streets of the metropolis by "Teddie" YYood land, who was himself a fare behind the horse, paying £90 for Kenby. He then transferred him b Mr. Adam Scott, for whom the erstwhile "crawler" has done yeoman service. — London Sporting Life.
