Octagonal & Anthony Foley RIIP: Big O Big Ocean

The Deaths in 2016 site lists under October 15 & 16 respectively:

• Octagonal, 24, New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. 
• Anthony Foley, 42, Irish rugby union player and head coach (Munster)

Their deaths are "timely" and connected.  To begin, Note the "Oct" in Octagonal.  Oct means 8 in origin... And this is October ...also the month of the horses birthday.  Note the following info from Octagonal's wiki page:

•  Octagonal (8 October 1992 – 15 October 2016)
•  also known as 'The Big O' or 'Occy'. He was by the champion sire Zabeel, out of the champion broodmare Eight Carat, 

He was also born on the 8th day... Which explains his name... Or was he named after his mother-- Eight Carat?!

As for Foley, note from his wiki page:

• Anthony Foley (30 October 1973 – 16 October 2016)

He too was born in October, and note from the wiki pages of 2 persons mentioned on his wiki page:

• Michael Joseph "Mick" Galwey (born 8 October 1966
• Paul Jeremiah O'Connell (born 20 October 1979)

Now for a 3rd connection.  I Watched the film Riphagen last night, note from 

Riphagen  IMDb page:
22 September 2016 (Netherlands)

note this inf re 2 of the cast:

Sieger Sloot (October 31, 1977) Anna Raadsveld (  May 22, 1990)