Horse hero Zenyatta helps distract the US during recession

Cross-posted from The Guardian Written by DAN GLAISTER More than 70 years after Seabiscuit took America's attention away from the Great Depression and the prospect of war, another hero has emerged to distract the nation as it copes with recession and the aftertaste of a bitterly divisive election. Zenyatta, a six-year-old thoroughbred mare, is unbeaten…