SPORTING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6413, 25 March 1892, Page 2

SPORTING.

A London cablegram, dated 23rd instant, says that Clarence won the Lincolnshire Handicap, run at the Linooln spring meeting, Acrobat second, Linkboy third. George Leary, the lad who it was alleged administered the dose to Now minster which settled that horse's prospects for the V.R.O. Derby of 1876, died recently in Geelong. "Hori Pcena" says:—"And so George Leary—the mad-headed but kind-hearted • Newminster George'—rests peacefully at last; * After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.' 'Tis better so. Not mine the wish to abate one jot of the righteous indignation that only allusion to the hocussing of tho Newminster should draw forth ; but in common fairness to the poor waif of humanity that has just ended his career at Waurn Ponds, near Geeloug, allow me to direct attention to the facts that George Leary must have been only a lad (of 16) when the deed was done, and that the master oiinds who plotted tho villainy were men of the world, who well knew how to overcome a lad's scruples. The arch-fiend in the transaction is supposed to have died in a lunatic asylum; but there are other leading conspirators still in the land of the living. These, in all the varying fortunes of his wayward life, he naver ' put away.* Their seoret is safe now, for the lips that might have breathed it are mute for ever."