Horse Racing

What’s in a Name: Mr. Moliere


4th place Chantilly, 29,000 USDDebutantes, 2-6, 3yo, c/g, 8f (AWT), 1:39.82, ft. MR MOLIERE (GB) (g, 3, King {GB}–Armande {Ire} {GSW & G1SP-Fr, $222,116}, by star sea {Ire}). Baron Edouard de Rothschild & Lady O’Reilly; B-SC Ecurie de Meautry & Petra Bloodstock Agency Ltd (GB); T-Andre Fabre; JM. Guyon.

Horse racing is an old game. Appropriately, there are many from the 17th and 18th centuries in the genealogy of the winner of the destruction of Chantilly Mr. Moliere (GB).

“Monsieur Moliere” for the French race commentator, proof.

Moliere is the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (1622-1673), a French playwright [and actor] ruled the theater of the time of Louis XIV, who loved and protected him. Armande, which shares the same name as practitioner Andre Fabre’s dam, is the name of Moliere’s young wife, also a famous theater practitioner in her own right. And it is not without reason that there is a full sister in the pipeline who has been baptized Mlle Moliere, stage name of Armande Poquelin [1640-1700] and, arguably, also an avid child No Now Never named after Mme de Pomadour, famous mistress of King Louis XV and great mistress of the royal family. all in [very historical] family.

2nd-Pau, $19,4002-5, 5yo/up, 10f (AWT), 2:05.60, ft. MON OURAGAN (FR) (h, 7, Toronado {Ire}–Lady Of The House {Ire}, by Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}). Lifetime record: 27-10-5-0, $156,532. O-Laurent Dassault; B-Framont Limited, M Matthew & M Beaumont (FR); T-Jean-Claude Rouget; JJ Eyquem.

Names of many French winners Ouragan (Fr) seems to be the result of clever puns between different languages. But…is that so?

Let’s take a step back. Years ago, when I first learned that there was a Group 1 winner named Toronado (High Chaparral–Wana Doo, of the Grand Slam), I thought it was named after the famous Oldsmobile In 1960, the first car was manufactured in the United States. with front wheel drive. I was not fully informed. In fact, when I finally asked one of the experts associated with the intern Richard Hannon Sr., she told me it was named after Zorro’s horse!

Twice true, Google confirmed: “Tornado (sometimes Toronado) is the horse rode by the character Zorro in several movies and books. Tornadoes are said to be smart and fast. His name is pronounced the Spanish way, ‘tor-NAH-do’ (except in the 1998 film The Mask of Zorro).

When it happens, tornado is also Spanish for “tornado” and ouragan is French for “storm, storm, storm”. You don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing and understand that there is a connection there.

of the story: although there is power in names, the power of names depends a lot on how much or how little we know. Phenomenology (the supposed science of how things can manifest themselves to humans) isn’t my favorite philosophy, but it won this round.

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