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ROSEBENS BROTHER A BIG FELLOW. New York. July 22. Paul Rainey has not taken a subscription in the Saratoga Special this season, but Edward Peters has shipped to Saratoga for him a brace of two-year-olds that are at least handsome enough to win that race. One of them. Rousseau, a son of Ben Strome and Rose Leaf, is a brother to Roseben. The other. Voltaire, a son of Watercress and Pillowdex. is a half-brother to the fast but faint-hearted IStriko Out. a Griffon colt for which Herman B. Duryea paid 5,000 while he was still an untried yearling. Rousseau bids fair to make as big a horse as Roseben. Already he is close to sixteen hands high, and he weighs all of 1.050 pounds. He is a powerfully built youngster of fine lnme and muscular development. Peters is giving Rousseau time to develop in order to test Mr. Ralnevs theory that two-year-olds are better for not being put at early racing. But Rousseau has had some stiff work, and he is infinitely sounder than Roseben was at a corresponding period of his career. Roseben liowed Imth tendons before he went to . the post. Konsseaus legs are as hard as steel and he has yet to take a wabbly step. Voltaire is a growtKv colt of the Watercress tvpe. but he looks like a race horse. The only Saratoga race for which Voltaire and Rousseau are eligible Is the Hopeful, and Peters will bend his efforts toward fitting them to meet Ocean Bound and Sweep with some prospect of success in that valuable special. Voltaire and Rousseau are both iu the Futurity at Sheepshead Ray and the Matron at Belmont Park. ,
