For an order statistic (X 1:n , . . . , X n:n ) of a collection of independent but not necessarily identically distributed random variables, and any i ∈ {1, . . . , n}, the conditional distribution of (X i+1:n , . . . , X n:n ) given X i:n > s is shown to be stochastically increasing in s. This answers a question by Hu and Xie (2006).