"[1] The Kentucky-bred Jamestown's name and image were used to promote Park & Tilford whiskey, which used the slogan: Proof of Kentucky bred quality!
His damsire was U. S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Fair Play, who also sired Man o' War.
[4] Although Jamestown twice defeated Equipoise, he shared the 1930 retrospective honors as listed by The Blood-Horse magazine[5] and Thoroughbred Heritage.
[2][permanent dead link] Four days after that, Jamestown raced again, finishing third to winner Twenty Grand in the Belmont Stakes.
Racing as a four-year-old in 1932, on July 1 Jamestown ran second to Equipoise in world record time in the Delavan Handicap at Chicago's Arlington Park.