STEVEN Smith hit the magic number of 1,000 rides since the start of the 2011 season at Frankfort Stud last Sunday when Gareth and Susan O’Shea’s King-Paola finished sixth, on his dressage score, in Section B of the EI100.

This was outing number 11 for the combination since mid-April and the six-year-old Starpower gelding, who has recorded three wins, is just one of many young horses that the Smith Brothers Eventing team have produced this year.