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ROUBAIX BACK IN ENGLAND Goculdas Famous Indian Racer Goes to Join Caligula at Litchfield Grange Stud Koubaix which is beyond doubt one of the best horses that ever raced in India has just arrived in England having returned tho other day on the steamship Castalia The horse reached Liverpool in splendid condi ¬ tion and good heart His legs and joints are as clean as when he was shipped to Bombay and he looks quite fit to go into training This however is not the intention of his owner Mathradas Gcculdas GcculdasRoubaix Roubaix has returned to keep Caligula company at Litchfield Grange Stud Farm near MScheldever Hants where he will be in the care of J H Crawford As Pwoubaix was an idol of the Indian racing crowds his record on the turf in that country will in ¬ terest readers He ended his racing career in a blaze of triumph for in a wonderful finish he won the last Viceroys Cup at Cal ¬ cutta carrying 129 pounds in the fast time for a mile and threequarters of 255 fivo seconds better than the previous record put up by himself a year earlier and by Bache ¬ lors Wedding in 1914 The latter however had three pounds less in the saddle saddleIn In 1920 Roubaix won the Viceroys Cup and in 1919 he deadheated for second placo with One in the same race a short head be ¬ hind the winner That year he had secured the mile King Emperors Cup which race ho again captured as a sixyearold while last December he was second in the same event to Not Much MuchKoubaix Koubaix won the King Emperors Cup in the fastest time on record and among other highclass Indian races in which he was successful were the Carmichael Cup one and onequarter miles with 136 pounds and the Aga Khans Cup one and onehalf miles while he deadheated in the Bombay City Plate in which he carried top weight and conceded twentyeight pounds to the other deadheater Roubaix proved himself a game horse and ran out his races unflinchingly unflinchinglyIn In India he secured sixteen races value over 74240 In England as a twoyearold he won the May Plate at Newmarket by three lengths from a field of nineteen and the next season carried off the mile VVood Ditton Stakes in a canter by two lengths as well as the Ayrshire Handicap of a mile and threeeighths He was beaten a head in tho Visitors Plate at Newmarket when carrying 126 pounds and giving twentyone pounds to the winner winnerRoubaix Roubaix was bred by Colonel C W Birkin and foaled in 1914 He is a good looking mediumsized brown horse by the Derby victor Minoru son of Cyllene Saints Bay by St Frusquin from Sweet Bay by Pe ¬ trarch When he has had time to recover from the effects of the journey and settled down a horse of such breeding and creden ¬ tials should not lack patronage
