TRAVELER  H, QUARTER HORSE, 1885 
 
Color: ch
Height: 15.1

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AQHA Hall of Fame 
Died ~1910. 

Mystery surrounds Traveler, as his breeding is completely unknown. He appeared in 
Texas in the mid-1880s and eventually ended up as a match racehorse and stallion. 
Some stories have him part of a contractor's work string doing grading  work on a 
railroad being constructed in Eastland County, Texas.[3] Whether or not this story 
is true, the first recorded owner of Traveler was a man named Brown Seay.

He was a light sorrel horse, with light amounts of roaning on his flanks. Markings 
were a snip, and a streak on the face. Standing around 15 hands high, he was leggy 
but well muscled, although George Clegg said the horse was the shortest backed 
horse he'd ever seen.[4] He was also owned by the Shely brothers, who bred most of 
his most famous offspring. While owned by Seay, Traveler was match raced extensively 
in Texas.

He died in 1912.He sired such influential Quarter horses as Little Joe, King (later 
named Possum), Jim Ned, Judge Thomas, Texas Chief, and Captain Joe.[1] Other 
descendants included Joe Reed II, Hard Twist, Silver King, Tonto Bars Hank, and 
Tonto Bars Gill.

He was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Association's (or AQHA) AQHA Hall of 
Fame.


After racing was used as racehorse & ranch stallion by Chris Seale, Baird, TX. Then 
passed through several hands and finally became the main stallion on the Shely 
Ranch, Alfred, TX. 

2 pg article about Traveler in the Jan/Feb 2004 AQHA Americas Horse.