INCENTIVES: Riata, National Reining Breeders Classic, NRCHA Cow Horse Incentive, NRHA Sire & Dam, Royal Crown Roping, North American Reining Stakes, Gold Buckle

Travelin Jonez is the kind of horse that changes the trajectory of a program. 

The 2008 stallion first made his mark in the show pen, where the horse’s sheer speed, huge stops and cow sense put trainer Chris Dawson on the map.

“He is scary fast,” Tres Osos Performance Horses’ Dave Mize said. “You can breed two world champions together and not get that, but TJ has it as an individual, and he passes it on.”

That speed has translated straight into the roping pen. Travelin Jonez’s offspring are proving to be versatile, with winners in the cow horse and rope horse arenas and money earners across the country. 

The magic with Travelin Jonez is in the outcross. He offers size and run in a cow horse world that often leans on small, straight cutting lines. Ropers like Dakota Kirchenschlager and Clyde Bolejack are already taking notice, and the few in the roping have already earned some $600,000 in just the last 18 months. 

As a sire, his colts tend to be straightforward, trainable and good-minded. His daughters are a little hotter and grittier, and that has turned into real mare power. One TJ daughter has already produced a Snaffle Bit Futurity winner, with more promising producers coming up, including the long dreamed-of cross on Sister Shiny Spark that is now a 2-year-old.

“We are breeders,” Mize said. “We want to make great mares, and TJ’s daughters are doing that.”

From major cow horse finals to high-pressure team roping setups, Travelin Jonez sires horses that can run, rate  and finish, then go on to anchor a broodmare band. He is a stallion built for longevity in the arena and in the stud barn.