Before the Selle Français was competed by Ireland's Mark McAuley. Valentino was produced at an international level by Sylvain Bissuel, Fabien Duranton and Charlotte McAuley.

At the highest level, McAuley took over the reins jumped to a seventh place in the CSI3* Grand Prix of Sharjah, as well as a sixth place in the CSI5* Grand Prix of Knokke, earlier this year.