Jaxon Traveler

Jaxon Traveler made his debut in a maiden special weight race at Pimlico on Sept. 24, 2020. He crushed the field by ten lengths in a gate-to-wire effort. He followed that win up with a score in a first-level allowance race at Laurel Park on Oct. 23, and a win in the Maryland Juvenile Futurity at Laurel on Dec. 5.

Jaxon Traveler won his first stakes race as a 3-year-old at Oaklawn Park on Apr. 24, 2021. He won by 2 3/4 lengths in a front-running score, for trainer Steve Asmussen and jockey Francisco Arrieta. He earned another stakes win against Maryland-breds in the Star de Nasrka Stakes at Pimlico on Aug. 21, covering six furlongs in 1:10.21. He closed out a 3-year-old season in which he earned $324,948 with a runner-up finish in the Gravesend Stakes in December at Aqueduct.

Jaxon Traveler was unplaced in his 4-year-old bow in January 2022 at Laurel Park but bounced back with a second-place finish in the Not For Love Stakes in March before another runner-up finish in an April allowance race at Aqueduct.

Returning to Pimlico, where he owned a record of two wins and a second in three starts, proved a recipe for success for Jaxon Traveler May 21 on the Preakness Stakes undercard. The 4-year-old set the pace in the Grade 3 Maryland Sprint Stakes, battled back gamely when headed in the stretch by Threes Over Deuces, and edged away late to a clear victory to halt a six-race winless stretch.

Jaxon Traveler was purchased for $140,000 at the Ocala Breeders' Sale in 2020.