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Oil on canvas Signed, inscribed "Lexington, 1929" and "Mad Hatter, 1915, by Map Cap, by Fair Play" Provenance: Normandy Farm, Pennsylvania Strassburger Family Foaled in 1915, Mad Hatter was bred by the same cross of Fair Play to Rock Sand mares. Lightly raced as a 2-year-old, according to Charles Hatton of the Daily Racing Form, Mad Hatter was so contrary that if urged hard he was apt to pull himself up, yet would attempt to run off with his rider if the jockey hauled on the reins. In 1919, he won the inaugural Latonia Championship Stakes and defeated Sir Barton in the Pimlico Autumn Handicap. In 1921 and 1922 he was in top form, winning the Jockey Club Gold Cup and Metropolitan Handicap both years, and being named U.S. champion older male in 1921. Ignac Konrad (Hungarian/French, 1894-1969) Konrad was a painter, sculptor, and an engraver. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Budapest in his native Hungary. After serving seven years as a prisoner of war in Russia during World War I, he returned to Budapest and became a professor in 1921. He painted the Thoroughbreds of the foremost Hungarian stables. He was commissioned by American Thoroughbred breeder Ralph Beaver Strassburger to paint Man o' War, Fair Play, High Time, Bubbling Over, Black Servant, and as many as five other stallions.