Selecting all corresponding fields using MAX and GROUP BY

I have this table :

And I would like to make a request that would return for each deal_id the row with the highest timestamp, and the corresponding status_id.

So for this example, I would have returned 2 rows :

1226, 3, 2009-08-18 12:10:25
1227, 2, 2009-08-17 14:31:25

I tried to do it with this query

SELECT deal_id, status_id, max(timestamp) FROM deal_status GROUP BY deal_id

but it would return the wrong status_id :

1226, 1, 2009-08-18 12:10:25
1227, 1, 2009-08-17 14:31:25