mental influence to an animal???, coincidence or not? Options

Hello all...
Well I want to know if the following can be true.. The facts are as follows:

1) i did a bet on a horse in a race
2) in that race the hot favourite looked in superb condition and keen to gallop...
This caused me to be anxious coz i was afraid that the favourite has a great chance of winning..
3) i somewhat wanted the favourite to lose.. i have never done any occult or similar thing like that before... When the horse was running the race, I imagined the heart of the horse and i like of imagined my hand pressing against the heart of the horse... like to stop it from running that fast .... Eventually the favourite won the race and i got angry... coz i lost money.. Normally races are fixed and you just get angry on the way the jockeys make a fool of the betting public...
4)well waht happened later frightened me.. the horse was in superb condition before the race but sohrtly after the race, theere was an announcement stating that the horse had died of a heart failure shortly after it won the race...
I was sad and really wished it was coincidence of what happened..
Can someone enlighten me if such thing is possible or not that it could have been due to someone doing such things in imagination and this comes true??

Interesting phenomina that crops up in the experimental method - the experimenter effect.

The basic gist of it can be described like so:
If one experimenter is given a mouse and a special diet to give that mouse, and told that the diet will make the mouse better at mazes, and another experimenter is given a mouse with that same special diet to give it, and told that the diet will make it worse at mazes, the first experimenter's mouse will be better than the second despite the fact that they may as well be physically identical.

Generally it's explained away as having to do with "subtle cues" given by the experimenter and so on, but basically there's no real hard explanation as to why it happens. It's just a manifestation of belief as a bias on the experiment.

Obviously the experimenter effect involves a more hands-on approach to it all though... but just thought it might be pertinent.