It's a f*%ing horse, people.

Briefly deprived of important things to worry about this past weekend, an entire civilized nation in the midst of a crushing economic quagmire and embroiled in bitter partisan divided got all upset that a horse named after a Police album didn't win a race that lasted, like, 15 seconds.


Above left or right: the stupid horse that had everybody all upset that it didn't achieve some kind of meaningless record only humans care about, since the horse itself probably couldn't even remember as far back as the previous morning.

Apparently, though, the horse took it in stride.

"If Zenyatta was disappointed, she sure didn't show it," reports the Associated Press.

Largely, this lack of disappointment-showing was probably due to the fact that horses neither understand the concept of nor possess the ability to express purely human emotions like "disappointment". Surprisingly, non-self-aware biological entities forced to compete in spectacles designed solely for the entertainment of their domineering human masters aren't especially bothered by win-loss ratios, regardless of what deluded journalists who are somehow employed despite openly demonstrating an utter failure to understand even the most basic principles of evolutionary biology want you to believe.

You'll get 'em next time, horse.