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

Travelin Jonez—a $1.2 million reined cow horse sire—earned nearly $200,000 in his own career that kicked off with a top 10 finish in the 2011 Snaffle Bit Futurity. As a 5-year-old, Travelin Jonez won three of the NRCHA’s premier aged events, plus racked up AQHA World Show qualifications in Jr Working Cow Horse, Jr Cutting and Open Ranch Riding.

Travelin Jonez is a maternal grandson of the great $2 million cutting producer Travalena through Travelin With Sass (a $400,000-plus producer). And that’s aside from being sired by Smart Chic Olena—a Hall-of-Fame producer of reined cow horses earning $14.6 million.

With Doc O’Lena on both sides and Gay Bar King on his top side, Travelin Jonez offers the athleticism, cow sense and speed ropers love. 

“He’s making both roping and reined cow horse winners,” said co-owner Paula Mize. “In the cow horse industry, a lot of the cutting-bred stallions have gotten smaller. But he’s a good cross on those mares because his babies are super athletic and a little bigger than most cow horses.”

Travelin Jonez’s first foals hit the arena in 2017. Les Oswald placed Lena Jonez deep in the 4-year-old heeling futurities in 2022, and they were fourth last summer in the Royal Crown Guthrie futurity. In only two years, Mize said Travelin Jonez babies have earned more than $400,000 team roping. 

“Dakota Kirchenschlager had as many last fall as he could get his hands on, said Mize. “They make really nice rope horses without hardly trying.”