Jamestown (horse)
Encyclopedia
Jamestown was an American Champion Thoroughbred
racehorse
. He was bred and raced by George D. Widener, Jr.
, an Exemplar of Racing and someone described by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
newspaper as "one of thoroughbred racing's most respected horsemen." http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WyMhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=e2YEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3573,3450894&dq=jamestown+breeder+widener&hl=en
Bred in Kentucky
, Jamestown's racing success led to his name and image of Jamestown was used to promote Park & Tilford whiskey using the slogan: Proof of Kentucky bred quality!
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wnYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KUwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3886,6264749&dq=jamestown+bred&hl=en His sire was St. James, the 1923 retrospective American Co-Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. Out of the mare, Mlle. Dazie, Jamestown's damsire was U. S. Racing Hall of Fame
inductee, Fair Play
who also sired Man o' War
.
Conditioned for racing by future U. S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer, Jack Joyner
, Jamestown raced against very strong opponents in 1930 and 1931 when he was part of what the Chicago Tribune
newspaper called the "big four" in racing which included Twenty Grand
, Mate
, and Equipoise
. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/457623722.html?dids=457623722:457623722&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+22%2C+1931&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=CHICAGO+TO+SEE+3+YEAR+OLD+TURF+CHAMP+CROWNED&pqatl=google As a two-year-old, Jamestown won five important races, capping off 1930 with a win in the most prestigious race in the United States for two-year-olds, the Belmont Futurity Stakes. At time when there was no official voting for annual racing Champions, Jamestown was recognized in the industry as the American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10E14F73D5B13778DDDA90994D0405B808FF1D3 Although Jamestown twice defeated Equipoise, he shared the 1930 retrospective honors as listed by The Blood-Horse
magazine http://www.bloodhorse.com/eclipsewinners/pdf/History_Charts.pdf and Thoroughbred Heritage. http://www.tbheritage.com/TurfHallmarks/Champs/AmChamp2yoMale.html
Injured, Jamestown did not start again until May 27 of 1931 when the then three-year-old won the Tournament Handicap at Belmont Park
. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40A12FB3E5E1B7A93CAAB178ED85F458385F9 Three days later the colt won the Withers Stakes
at Belmont Park and on June 9 at the same track won the Colin Purse. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iAAcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P1QEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2578,5294237&dq=withers+stakes+jamestown&hl=en Four days after that, Jamestown raced again, finishing third to winner Twenty Grand in the Belmont Stakes
. After running third in the June 25th Shelvin Stakes against inferior competition, Jamestown was rested http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F16F9395F11738DDDAE0A94DE405B818FF1D3 and did not race again in 1932.
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
. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00D12FD3A5A13738DDDA80894DF405B828FF1D3 Jack Joyner retired at the end of 1932 and assistant trainer Bert Mulholland
took over as head trainer of the Widener stable. For Mulholland, the five-year-old Jamestown won the Capitol Handicap at Laurel Park Racecourse in Maryland
. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JggtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=X9UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3776,2518389&dq=jamestown+capitol+handicap&hl=en
duty for the 1934 season at his owner's Erdenheim Farm in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania but the following year Widener would relocate him to his Old Kenney Farm in Lexington, Kentucky
.
Overall, Jamestown met with reasonable success as a stallion, siring eighteen stakes race winners. Among his sons were excellent runners such as:
Through his daughter, Reaping Reward, Jamestown was also the damsire of Sheilas Reward
, back-to-back winner of American Champion Sprint Horse honors in 1950 and 1951.
Jamestown died at age twenty-five in 1953 and is buried in the Old Kenney Farm's equine cemetery.
Thoroughbred
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...
racehorse
Horse racing
Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has a long history. Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in ancient Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. Both chariot and mounted horse racing were events in the ancient Greek Olympics by 648 BC...
. He was bred and raced by George D. Widener, Jr.
George D. Widener, Jr.
George Dunton Widener, Jr. was an American businessman and thoroughbred racehorse owner; one of only five people ever designated "Exemplars of Racing" by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.-Biography:...
, an Exemplar of Racing and someone described by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is a daily newspaper located in Sarasota, Florida.It is owned by The New York Times Company, who purchased it in 1982, and part of its regional news group. Along with Comcast, the newspaper operates a local 24-hour...
newspaper as "one of thoroughbred racing's most respected horsemen." http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WyMhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=e2YEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3573,3450894&dq=jamestown+breeder+widener&hl=en
Bred in Kentucky
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
, Jamestown's racing success led to his name and image of Jamestown was used to promote Park & Tilford whiskey using the slogan: Proof of Kentucky bred quality!
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wnYbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KUwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3886,6264749&dq=jamestown+bred&hl=en His sire was St. James, the 1923 retrospective American Co-Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. Out of the mare, Mlle. Dazie, Jamestown's damsire was U. S. Racing Hall of Fame
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
The National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame was founded in 1950 in Saratoga Springs, New York, to honor the achievements of American thoroughbred race horses, jockeys, and trainers...
inductee, Fair Play
Fair Play (horse)
Fair Play was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who was successful on the track, but even more so as a sire.His grandsire was Spendthrift, whose grandsire was the English Triple Crown champion West Australian....
who also sired Man o' War
Man O' War
Man O' War, man o' war or manowar may refer to:* Man-of-war, a warship* Man of war for uses with this spelling - Places :...
.
Conditioned for racing by future U. S. Racing Hall of Fame trainer, Jack Joyner
A. Jack Joyner
Andrew Jackson "Jack" Joyner was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame trainer and owner.Known as "Jack" and reported as "A.J." and "A. Jack," Joyner was born in Enfield, North Carolina, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Henry Joyner...
, Jamestown raced against very strong opponents in 1930 and 1931 when he was part of what the Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
newspaper called the "big four" in racing which included Twenty Grand
Twenty Grand
Twenty Grand was an American thoroughbred race horse. Owned and bred by Helen Hay Whitney's Greentree Stable, Twenty Grand was a bay colt by St. Germans out of Bonus.- Racing career :Trained at age three by James G. Rowe, Jr...
, Mate
Mate (horse)
Mate was an American Thoroughbred racehorse best known for winning the 1931 Preakness Stakes. From modest parentage, he was bred and raced by Albert C...
, and Equipoise
Equipoise (horse)
Equipoise was a champion Thoroughbred racehorse, a chestnut bred in the United States by Harry Payne Whitney and owned by his son, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney...
. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/457623722.html?dids=457623722:457623722&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Mar+22%2C+1931&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=CHICAGO+TO+SEE+3+YEAR+OLD+TURF+CHAMP+CROWNED&pqatl=google As a two-year-old, Jamestown won five important races, capping off 1930 with a win in the most prestigious race in the United States for two-year-olds, the Belmont Futurity Stakes. At time when there was no official voting for annual racing Champions, Jamestown was recognized in the industry as the American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10E14F73D5B13778DDDA90994D0405B808FF1D3 Although Jamestown twice defeated Equipoise, he shared the 1930 retrospective honors as listed by The Blood-Horse
The Blood-Horse magazine
The Blood-Horse is an international weekly news magazine about Thoroughbred horses, horse breeding, and horseracing. It was founded in 1916, the oldest continually published North American Thoroughbred magazine. The magazine is based in Lexington, Kentucky, the Horse Capital of the World...
magazine http://www.bloodhorse.com/eclipsewinners/pdf/History_Charts.pdf and Thoroughbred Heritage. http://www.tbheritage.com/TurfHallmarks/Champs/AmChamp2yoMale.html
Injured, Jamestown did not start again until May 27 of 1931 when the then three-year-old won the Tournament Handicap at Belmont Park
Belmont Park
Belmont Park is a major thoroughbred horse-racing facility located in Elmont in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, on Long Island adjoining New York City. It first opened on May 4, 1905...
. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40A12FB3E5E1B7A93CAAB178ED85F458385F9 Three days later the colt won the Withers Stakes
Withers Stakes
The Withers Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds willing to compete one mile on the dirt. Held at Aqueduct Racetrack every year at the end of April , it is a Grade III event, and offers a purse of $150,000...
at Belmont Park and on June 9 at the same track won the Colin Purse. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iAAcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P1QEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2578,5294237&dq=withers+stakes+jamestown&hl=en Four days after that, Jamestown raced again, finishing third to winner Twenty Grand in the Belmont Stakes
Belmont Stakes
The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes Thoroughbred horse race held every June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. It is a 1.5-mile horse race, open to three year old Thoroughbreds. Colts and geldings carry a weight of 126 pounds ; fillies carry 121 pounds...
. After running third in the June 25th Shelvin Stakes against inferior competition, Jamestown was rested http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0F16F9395F11738DDDAE0A94DE405B818FF1D3 and did not race again in 1932.
Racing as a four-year-old in 1932, on July 1 Jamestown ran second to Equipoise in world record
World record
A world record is usually the best global performance ever recorded and verified in a specific skill or sport. The book Guinness World Records collates and publishes notable records of all types, from first and best to worst human achievements, to extremes in the natural world and beyond...
time in the Delavan Handicap at Chicago's
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
Arlington Park
Arlington Park
Arlington Park is a horse race track in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, Illinois. Horse racing in the Chicago region has been a popular sport since the early days of the city in the 1830s, and at one time Chicago had more horse racing tracks than any other major metropolitan area...
. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00D12FD3A5A13738DDDA80894DF405B828FF1D3 Jack Joyner retired at the end of 1932 and assistant trainer Bert Mulholland
Winbert F. Mulholland
Winbert F. "Bert" Mulholland was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.Born in Lexington, Kentucky, the American heartland for Thoroughbred horse breeding, Bert Mulholland began his career in racing as an exercise rider for his uncle, W. C. "Farmer Bill" Scully.In 1923 Bert...
took over as head trainer of the Widener stable. For Mulholland, the five-year-old Jamestown won the Capitol Handicap at Laurel Park Racecourse in Maryland
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JggtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=X9UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3776,2518389&dq=jamestown+capitol+handicap&hl=en
As a sire
Jamestown was retired to studStud (animal)
A stud animal is a registered animal retained for breeding. The terms for the male of a given animal species usually imply that the animal is entire—that is, not castrated—and therefore capable of siring offspring...
duty for the 1934 season at his owner's Erdenheim Farm in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania but the following year Widener would relocate him to his Old Kenney Farm in Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 63rd largest in the US. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World", it is located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region...
.
Overall, Jamestown met with reasonable success as a stallion, siring eighteen stakes race winners. Among his sons were excellent runners such as:
- JohnstownJohnstown (horse)Johnstown was an American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse who won two out of every three races he competed in. Bred at Claiborne Farm, he was purchased by William Woodward, Sr...
(b. 1936) - Hall of Fame inductee and 1939 Kentucky DerbyKentucky DerbyThe Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is one and a quarter mile at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry...
and Belmont StakesBelmont StakesThe Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes Thoroughbred horse race held every June at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. It is a 1.5-mile horse race, open to three year old Thoroughbreds. Colts and geldings carry a weight of 126 pounds ; fillies carry 121 pounds...
winner - Rosetown (b. 1937) - won 20 races including the Adirondack Handicap, Diana HandicapDiana HandicapThe Diana Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race. Named for the mythological goddess Diana, the race is run each year at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. Inaugurated in 1939, it is open to fillies and mares age three and up willing to race the one and one-eighth miles on...
, and Vineland HandicapVineland HandicapThe Vineland Handicap was an American Thoroughbred horse race run at Garden State Park Racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Open to horses age three and older, it was contested on turf over a distance of a mile and a sixteenth.... - Natchez (b. 1943) - wins include Travers StakesTravers StakesThe Travers Stakes is an American Grade I Thoroughbred horse race held at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York.First held in 1864, it was named for William R. Travers, the president of the old Saratoga Racing Association. His horse, Kentucky, won the first running of the Travers...
, Kent Stakes
Through his daughter, Reaping Reward, Jamestown was also the damsire of Sheilas Reward
Sheilas Reward
Sheilas Reward was an American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse who was voted the American Champion Sprint Horse of 1950 and 1951. He was sired by multiple stakes winner Reaping Reward and out of the mare Smart Sheila, a daughter of the 1930 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, Jamestown.-A...
, back-to-back winner of American Champion Sprint Horse honors in 1950 and 1951.
Jamestown died at age twenty-five in 1953 and is buried in the Old Kenney Farm's equine cemetery.