He was owned by Clifford Mooers, proprietor of Walnut Springs Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, and trained by future U.S.
On November 13, 1956 Clifford Mooers died of a heart attack at New York City's LaGuardia Airport while en route to see Traffic Judge compete in the Narragansett Special.
[2] Traffic Judge's race conditioning was then taken over by another Hall of Fame inductee, James W. Maloney.
Traffic Judge showed some promise at age two when he won the 1954 Prairie State Stakes at Washington Park Race Track in Chicago.
[4] Traffic Judge did however win several important races that year including the Ohio Derby[5] the Ventnor Turf Handicap[6] and the Jerome Handicap[7] for three-year-olds as well as the Woodward Stakes, a major weight-for-age race against older horses.