Boom French stallion Orlando Vici has eight lots on offer at the Nutrien Equine Standardbred Yearling Sale, after a sensational start to his stud career Down Under. 

His first Australian crop in 2015 consisting of 11 foals, literally hit the track running with everyone getting to the races for an astonishing 10 winners, more than half of them in sub- 2min times and either winning or placing at group level.  

His son Just Believe has won seven, reached open class, and raced in the final of this year’s Great Southern Star while group 2 NSW Derby winner Xebec had 6 wins in Australia and is now racing in New Zealand where he has won twice more to date.  

Brandlo Prince has now won 10 races and over $100K  and has been placed twice at Group 1, Deneuve Star has won 4 times, been placed at group level, and taken a slick winning record of 1.56.6 while Beau Garcon won 8 times including at Group 3 level and been placed twice more at Group level. 

Orlando Storm has won five and been placed at Group level, Montpellier has  4 wins, and Belltopper Boy 3, in what was an outstanding achievement for any stallion, let alone a European one that received very little support from Australians breeders.  

It is a far different story in Europe, where the French-bred Orlando Vici, a multiple Group 1 winner in his own right, remains one of the continent’s premier sires after a decade of outstanding results, producing world-class performers and a high percentage of very good racehorses out of all manner of mares. 

Providing a genuine outcross, with superb American bloodlines on his dam side, he has consistently proven to be a top ten sire in France and Sweden and this year capped it off with three entrants in this year’s  Elitloppet, the most of any stallion. 

In France’s greatest race, the Prix d’Amerique,  Orlando Vici was the only stallion to be represented as a sire and as a damsire of an entrant through 2019 runner-up Looking Superb and  Gu d’Heripre, who finished third this year, respectively. 

Gu d’Heripre, currently the best 5YO in Europe and from the Orlando Vici mare, Vedetta d’Heripre,  is from the same family as the imported mare Beautiful River, whose filly by Uniclove is also in the sale and offers a rare chance to get an outstandingly bred filly from one of the best families in France. 

And for fillies buyers, it is notable that Orlando Vici has shot up to Number 13 in the French rankings (out of more than 600 stallions) with all but one of those above him being older horses. 

Orlando Vici is represented in the sale with the fillies (all first foals) from classy performers,  group 3 winners Heavenly Sister and Nieta plus group placed KD Muscles and I'm Lady Angus, along with colts from group one producing mare Class of Her Own (a half-brother to Always Ready) and the good producer Top Of The Anvils.