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* Lane Colorbearers Win Three Events on Texas Futurity Card SAN ANGELO, Tex., May 21. — E. H. Lane, Odem, Texas, horseman, took three top events here on the closing day of the Texas Horse- Breeders annual futurity. Lane, vice-president of the organization, and representative of King Banch in southwest racing, at recognized and other tracks, won the futurity Consolation with Top Distance, the Special Event with Encanta-dora, and the Texas Futurity, half-mile division, with Top Pretty. Jockey Frank Bone was the rider in all events. He is remembered from the big tracks. Sharing honors also was Oscar Jeffers, Oklahoma, who saddled the back filly, N. R. Negraletta, to score in the 300 yard division of the Texas Futurity. In the other half of this race, J. B. Fergusons Moon Deck, bred by the Lane interests, won, with the Depth Charge colt, Red Charge, second by a nose. More than 5,000 fans witnessed the final days racing at the fair grounds here, and the program was further enlivened by the appearance of Henry Bossmans two German-bred thoroughbreds, whom he acquired at one of the remount sales, and with whom he generally wins. Encantadora shaded Snack Bar, five-year-old duaghter of Taj Akbar, second to Mahmour in the Epsom Derby, but the Flying Dutchman, Bossmans favorite, sired by Mirza U., out of Enid, European broodmare, easily won the Judge John V. Morrissey Memorial, one half. The 300-yard futurity was worth 60 per cent of ,000 to owner Jeffers. The second horse got 30 per cent and third horse. 10 per cent. Fergusons Moon Deck won him the same percentage of ,900 in the other 300-yard dash, while Lane won 60 per cent of ,800 in the half-mile futurity.
