Episode #306: Jeff Seder, EQB, “We Ended Up The First Triple Crown Winner In 37 Years”

Episode #306: Jeff Seder, EQB, “We Ended Up The First Triple Crown Winner In 37 Years”

Guest: Jeffrey Seder founded EQB, Inc. (Equine Biomechanics and Exercise Physiology), a high-tech sports medicine startup, in 1978 after working as a groom in racehorse barns and breeding farms and then managing a race horse training center and racing stable. EQB is a consultant to the majority of the top ten major thoroughbred racehorse racing stables. A graduate of Harvard, Harvard Law, and Harvard Business School, Jeffrey Seder worked for Citicorp’s International Banking Division in New York City.

Date Recorded: 4/21/2021

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Run-Time: 51:20

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Summary: In episode 306, we welcome our guest, Jeff Seder, founder of EQB, a high-tech sports medicine startup that consults with the majority of the major thoroughbred racehorse racing stables.

In today’s episode, we hear the best moneyball story you’ve never heard. With the Kentucky Derby this weekend, there’s no one better to listen to than Jeff, who’s disrupted the horse racing industry with his quantitative approach. He walks us through all he’s gone through to gather data over the last 30 years and why the industry has been resistant to data even to this day.

Then he explains why studying the size of one ventricle in a horse’s heart led him to believe the it had the potential for greatness, leading him to tell his boss, “Sell your house, don’t sell this horse.” Not a bad call since that horse, American Pharoah, went on to become the first Triple Crown winner in 37 years!

As we wind down, we hear what Jeff thinks about this weekend’s Kentucky Derby and his advice if you’re thinking of betting on the race.

All this and more in episode 306 with EQB’s Jeff Seder.

Links from the Episode:

• 0:48 – Intro
• 1:49 – Welcome to our guest, Jeff Seder
• 2:20 – How Jeff transitioned from attending Harvard to working with horses
• 5:52 – Joining forces with the United States sports medicine committee
• 9:38 – Starting out by hiding in the bushes to gather horse race data
• 12:03 – Early days of talking to trainers and buyers
• 17:26 – Developing testing methods to accurately measure race horses hearts
• 20:05 – Direct measurements of horse bone density mailing horse legs to MIT
• 22:48 – Sponsor: URNM: The NORTH SHORE GLOBAL URANIUM MINING ETF
• 24:14 – Other insights that do or do not contribute to a horses success
• 27:58 – The onramp of Jeff disclosing his new discoveries with everyone else
• 29:37 – The American Pharaoh story
• 31:59 – How the pricing of race horses works
• 36:32 – Is there a correlation between heart size and a winning horse?
• 38:38 – What is on the horizon for Jeff and his industry
• 41:18 – Are winning metrics more important than training?
• 44:34 – How the field looks for the Kentucky derby this year
• 45:58 – Which horse was Jeff’s most memorable across his career
• 48:06 – How big of a role or influence does gambling have on horse races
• 50:25 – Learn more about Jeff; eqb.com

Coming Soon: Jeff’s Kentucky Derby picks

Transcript of Episode 306:

Coming soon.

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