The Drovers now take Ponty's place in the first semi-final at Neath on 13 May although Ponty will consider an appeal.

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He had heard that a stock trader there named Colonel Stonehill had bought a large parcel of cow ponies from Texas drovers on their way to Kansas and was now stuck with them.

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