Who/what/where is a Collonges?

[SirHarryLewis]

Quote: from wit on 3:12 am on Jan. 9, 2007[br]The name Agnes translates phonetically to Japanese as agunesu and means "holy".      

It became a very famous name in Japan in 1973 when a Sister Agnes was reported to have experienced in Akita a visitation by Mary, Mother of God in basically a Japanese re-run of events at Lourdes and Fatima:

http://www.pdtsigns.com/akita.html<br>http://www.ladyofallnations.org/akita.htm

Events continued for nine years and were declared miraculous in 1984.

<br>Now I’ve no basis to make any link at all between those events and the subsequent naming of the Agnes horses.

<br>……but there is a curious coincidence that – if only there were any facts to support it – might have made for a fascinating link:

The Agnes horses were all bred or owned by the folk behind Shadai Farm………..and "Shadai" is a name for God in the Old Testament (eg Exodus Ch 6 v3).

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You are a genius…………..but with far too much time on your hands :)

SHL

[Sal]

Great stuff, wit, as always.

The ‘Agnes’ horses are bred by a wide range of different people in Japan, although it could be that they are all involved in the Shadai partnerships.

Something to back up your idea though – the earliest naming of an Agnes I can find in Japan is a 1971 horse (even though Shadai was founded in 1949), who would probably have been named as a 2yo in 1973.  The number of Agneses (Agnei?) rapidly increased in the late seventies, in line with the events you mentioned.  

Another Japanese one that’s been bugging me – can you explain about the ‘Symboli’ horses?

[wit]

hi Sal

the "Symboli"s  i think will be the same as your "d’Estruval" model –  bred at the Symboli bokujo (or stud, literally "boku"-  i, me male, and "jo"- lock) in Chiba (a region close to Tokyo which contains among other things Narita airport, Tokyo Disneyland and much of the Tokyo Bay development).

they had the leading Japanese sire in Partholon in 1971, 1976 and 1984, since when its been all Shadai:

http://www.tbheritage.com/HistoricSires … Sires.html

looking at that list, its easy to agree with the sentiments of this 2002 article about the effects of insularity of the Japanese stud book:

http://www.jair.jrao.ne.jp/journal/v10n5/j2000f.html

best regards

wit<br>

[Alderbrook]

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