Jay Eye See's name (also spelled "Jay-Eye-See") was a pun on the initials of his owner, threshing machine manufacturer Jerome Case.

[3] However, Jay-Eye-See was retrained by Edwin D. Blither to race with a new gait, and three years later set a pacing record of 2:06.25 in 1892 at Independence, Iowa.

Currier and Ives did a series of prints[5] and the horse's image was used to advertise products by the Case company for years.

[9] A planned marble monument to Jay Eye See was never erected, and the horse's grave site neglected for almost a century.

After a developer planned to build a parking lot over the suspected grave, local historians located and removed the bones in July 1997.