1 00 MUNDIG. 



MUNDIG. 



WINNER OF THE DERBY STAKES AT EPSOM, 1835. 



Here stands Mundig, the only one in our list of *' Craxiks" 

 whose fame, founded upon private information, was proved 

 to be no jack-o'-lantern, and whose first appearance in pub- 

 lic was hailed as winner of the Derby, 



Mundig was got by Catton, out of Emma, by Whisker, 

 grandam Gibside Fairy, by Hermes, out of Vicissitude, by 

 Pipator — Beatrice, by Sir Peter, and was bred by his owner, 

 John Bowes, Esq., M.P., of Streatlam-castle, in the county 

 of Durham. He is a rich chesnut, with a white star and a 

 white hind leg, coming half-way up to the hock, full-limbed, 

 but coarsish-looking, with remarkably fine action, especially 

 when got well into his stride. 



Mundig came into the betting for the Derby, so as to be 

 of any consideration, only about a month before the day. 

 In the beginning of the month of April he had stood at 30 

 to 1 against him ; but on the 27th of that month he fell to 

 50, a change which is to be accounted for, by the fact that 

 a boy connected with the stable having been suspected (and 

 rightly) of giving information, was purposely deceived into 

 the supposition that the horse was gone home to the North ; 

 a piece of news which he conveyed without fail to his em- 

 ployers, who having, on this information, laid out large sums 

 against the horse, were somewhat surprised to find him 

 rising in the odds, until from 50 to 1, he stood upon the 

 day with only 6 to 1 against him — Lord Jersey's Ibrahim 

 being first favourite at 7 to 4, and Lord Orford's Ascot next 



