Jordan’s Letter To The Times
JORDAN, aka Katie Price, has written a letter to The Times.
Sir,:
So the Cartier Polo International was happy to invite a man convicted of assault on an elderly couple, dozens of aristocrats and an assortment of would-be actresses in minuscule dresses. But it wouldn’t have me. More than 35,000 people came to the polo match last weekend but I was excluded.
Why? I’m a successful author and businesswoman, a rider, I am learning to play polo and I compete in dressage events. I rode my first horse when I was 7, and saved up to rent my first pony, Star, when I was 11. He was the ugliest, hairiest pony in the yard but I adored him. My mum couldn’t afford for me to go to Pony Club but it didn’t stop me going to gymkhanas. I just wanted to beat all those smart little girls in their perfect jodphurs and jackets.
All my life I’ve been surrounded by horses, I earned my pocket money sweeping out stables and I now have six horses. I’ve been invited to take part in the Royal Horse of the Year show, I’ve even played a charity polo match at Cowdray Park.
My book Perfect Ponies: My Pony Care Book was shortlisted for the WHSmith children’s prize and I have written a bestselling series of stories about ponies. I know more about fetlocks and forelocks than most of the celebrities invited by Cartier and the Chinawhite nightclub. I’ve certainly mucked out more horses.
I also have a business career, I’ve a No1 perfume and a lingerie line. I’m a wife working as hard as I can to bring up my children, Harvey, Junior and Princess Tiaamii, and be a good role model for them.
I didn’t want to go to Windsor to meet royalty. I’ve met the Prince of Wales and the Queen before. I don’t need to be photographed with the A-list, I’ve met quite enough celebrities. I wanted to watch the matches and give my family a treat.
It’s pure snobbery. However good a horsewoman I may be, I’m also a glamour model. That embarrassed the organisers. I paid Chinawhite £6,000 for my table, but my manager was told that I was not the sort of person they wanted. Eliza Doolittle went to the races with Henry Higgins after a few elocution lessons, In Pretty Woman Julia Roberts went to the polo straight from Sunset Boulevard, but in the 21st century we have become even more class-ridden. Unless you are a toff or an aspiring actress, they don’t want you.
Polo should be for people who love horses, not a media charade. It should be about the sport. Horses are a wonderful hobby, one that gets you outside and keeps you fit. They should be for everyone - little girls, glamour girls, working-class girls like me. No one should be excluded.
For your comments…
August 7th, 2008 at 9:40 am
I bet the stuck up gits who blocked her have perved on her pictures in the past. The straight ones, that is. How else do they know who she is?
You go Jordan! Start up polo in Oz, we’d love it down here and you’d have a much better time than with that bunch of hypocrits!
August 7th, 2008 at 11:27 am
My Dad, A regular cavalryman on horseman of some note, said to me of horsewomen
‘Son’, he said
(He always called me that even though I was conceived while he was in a Japanese POW camp)
‘Son’ he said ‘Never trust a horsewoman whose breasts are so big she can’t see her own cantle’
Wise words
August 7th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
…you did mean “cantle” there, didn’t you Yampster…?
perhaps the Cartier people will accept her once she’s had them reduced again?
August 8th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Cartier are vulgar anyway. Only a tart with no taste would buy from them.
August 8th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Don’t be silly, Karen; tarts don’t buy from Cartiers. Their lovers do the buying…
August 9th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
The English never cease to amaze me…
You are such snobs…
August 9th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Polo is like darts. Neither of them are sports; they are social events.
They just happen to be at different ends of the social scale.
“On the oche… a well heeled jockey.”
…and they both have chukkas, or should that be chuckers?
August 21st, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Good on yer Katie I had a dream of owning horses all my life and had to wait till i was 40 my son now has one too and does really well. However, we were really shocked when we did a Mounted Games Demo at a polo match as to how snobby it is and it put me off for life. You want a good day out with the kids come along to a Prince Phillip Cup Mounted Games comp and all the family will love its high action with normal ponies and kids.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:41 am
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK KATIE.THE PROBLEM WITH PEOPLE WHO SNUB YOU AND LOOK DOWN ON YOU IS THEY ARE JEALOUS,YOU HAVE IT ALL.FANTASTIC LOOKS,GREAT PERSONALITY,A FANTASTIC HUSBAND AND FAMILY,AND A CAREER THAT IS STILL ON THE UP.I THINK YOU ARE FANTASTIC.