Classiest Woman In All Of The UK Response To Polo Snobbery

Katie Price, the glamour model and businesswoman otherwise known as Jordan, has taken the establishment to task over being banned from attending the Cartier Polo International tournament last weekend.

Writing alongside the politicians and pundits of the The Times' comment pages today, Price attacks the decision to exclude her as 'pure snobbery'.

Price was told she was 'not the kind of person they wanted' when her manager tried to book a £6,000 table in the marquee hosted by nightclub Chinawhite in Windsor Great Park.

'It's pure snobbery. However good a horsewoman I may be, I'm also a glamour model. That embarrassed the organisers.

As well as being a successful author and businesswoman, with her own perfume and lingerie line, Price says she has been surrounded by horses since she was a child, now has a stable of six and has written a best-selling series of children's stories about ponies.

Price, whose book Perfect Ponies: My Pony Care Book, was shortlisted for the WH Smith Children's Prize, writes: '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.'

She is learning to play polo, competes in dressage events and has been invited to take part in the Royal Horse of the Year Show.

In the article she writes: '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.

Chinawhite, which has been patronised many times by Price, has claimed that the affair was a misunderstanding because she booked her table too late and rejected claims that her agent was told she was too 'chavvy'.

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