He had won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. Now he was siring the champions of the next generation, and in high demand for same.

It's a true story, and this illustration was commissioned by the real RQ's owner to advertise exactly this.

It goes to show that no matter how surely we we've convinced ourselves that our little world is so obscure and no one would understand it, the general public, more often than not, tends to have a taste for this stuff in the right measure.