Fifteen hundred tons of synthetic dirt now sit in the middle of Wollman Rink in Central Park, hauled in a few days ago to transform the ice skating area into a parade ground for some of the world’s most prized horses. The Rolex Central Park Horse Show is meant to bring horses back to a city and a park with bridle paths that were once frequently used for riding. Champion ponies and renowned Olympic steeds will spend part of this week there in what are expected to be fierce competitions.

One horse in attendance, however, will not so much as break a sweat. His job is just to be really, really, ridiculously good looking.

His name is Frederik the Great. With 14 million views on YouTube and a New York City schedule that includes an appearance on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” as well as cameos at the horse show this weekend, the stallion, who lives in Arkansas, is perhaps the Kardashian of horses: famous not necessarily for his skills, but for his looks. Coal black, with a curving neck from which at least four feet of cascading mane and little tufts at his ankles, Frederik the Great is a Friesian. “They are a war horse,” Stacy Nazario, his owner, said of the breed. “They are ‘look at me’ type horses.”