Orfevre (Japanese : オルフェーヴル, foaled May 14, 2008) is a retired Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse. In 2011 he won the Japanese Triple Crown and was voted Japanese Horse of the Year. In 2012 he added victories in the Takarazuka Kinen and the Prix Foy but was narrowly beaten in both the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe and the Japan Cup. He acquired the reputation of being an extremely talented but temperamental racehorse. In 2013 Orfevre again won the Prix Foy and finished second in the Arc before ending his career with an eight length win in the Arima Kinen.
Orfevre (French for "goldsmith") is a chestnut horse with a white blaze, bred by the Shadai Farm in Hokkaido, Japan. His sire Stay Gold, a son of the thirteen time Leading sire in Japan Sunday Silence, was a successful international performer, winning the Dubai Sheema Classic and the Hong Kong Vase. Standing at stud at the Big Red Farm in Hokkaido, he has produced numerous important winners including Dream Journey, Nakayama Festa and Gold Ship. His dam Oriental Art was a daughter of the Hall of Fame inductee Mejiro McQueen was also the dam of Dream Journey. The horse was ridden in Japan by Kenichi Ikezoe while Christophe Soumillon rode the horse in his European races.
Walk you to the counter
(What you got to offer?)
Pick you out a solder
(Look at you forever)
Walk you to the water
(Your eyes like a casino)
We ain't born typical
Find a piece of silver
(Pretty as a diagram)
And go down to the Rio
(Put it in my left hand)
Put it in a fruit machine
(Everyone's a winner)
Laughin' like a seagull
U.R.A fever
U.R.A fever
Ya ain't born typical
U.R.A fever
U.R.A fever
Ya ain't born typical
Livin' in a suitcase
(Meet a clown, fall in love)
Went down to have you over
(Going 'round a break up)
Take you to a jukebox
(That's the situation)
Pick you out a number
(And that's our arrangement)
Dancing on the legs
Of a newborn pony
Left, right, left, right
Keep it up, son
Go ahead and have her
Go ahead and leave her
You only ever had her
When you were a fever
I am a fever
I am a fever
I ain't born typical
I am a fever
I am a fever
I ain't born typical
We are a fever
We are a fever
We ain't born typical
We are a fever
We are a fever
We ain't born typical
We are a fever
We are a fever
We ain't born typical
We are a fever
We are a fever