Loser Weeper

A foal of 1945, Loser Weeper was bred by Alfred Vanderbilt Jr.'s Sagamore Farm in Reisterstown, Maryland. His sire Discovery was purchased as a three-year-old by Vanderbilt and would earn American Horse of the Year honors for him as well as a place in the U. S. Racing Hall of Fame.

Loser Weeper's dam was stakes winner Outdone, a daughter of the 1925 Belmont Futurity winner, Pompey. As a result of his breeding, Loser Weeper is a full brother to Miss Disco, the dam of the very influential National Champion and Hall of Fame sire, Bold Ruler.[1] Through another daughter, Delmarie, Pompey was also the damsire of Count Turf, winner of the 1951 Kentucky Derby.[2]

As a three-year-old Loser Weeper did not have a significant win but did run second in the Kent Stakes and third in both the Dwyer Stakes and the race named for his sire, the Discovery Handicap. He started to make an impact in racing as a four-year-old when in May 1949 he won the prestigious Met Mile at Belmont Park under future Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee Hedley Woodhouse.[3] He ended the year with other important victories in the Bay Shore and Vosburgh Handicaps plus the first of back-to-back wins in the Valley Forge Handicap at New Jersey's Garden State Park.[4]

At age five in 1950, Loser Weeper had his best year in racing. On May 1, he won the Edward Burke Handicap at Havre de Grace Racetrack in Maryland [5] then seven days later won his second Valley Forge Handicap in New Jersey, defeating future Canadian Hall of Famer Arise.[6] Returning to Maryland, on May 14 Loser Weeper captured the 49th edition of the Dixie Handicap at Pimlico.[7]

In June 1951, Sagamore Farm manager Ralph Kercheval announced that Loser Weeper would be retired to stud. The durable winner had competed in 63 races and although none of his progeny achieved anything close to his level of success, a significant percentage of them demonstrated that durability.[11]