That Jordan inhabits a strange world, doesn't she? A twilight place between softcore glamour modelling and traditional equestrian disciplines. It's pretty much just her there, too, all by herself - unless you count that scene in Secret Diary of a Call Girl with the saddle.

But Katie never seems lonely. Au contraire, she strikes out, like an Amazonian Queen, an urban Aphrodite, a destroyer of men, who throws herself into everything with an infectious, childlike vigor and does whatever she wants, whenever she wants...

There's something rather noble, then, about the way the reality star made her competitive dressage debut this week, and finished sixth in a field of 27. She's said to have her eyes set on the 2012 Olympic games. Initially you think "this is like the time Liz Hurley tried to re-invent herself as a film producer", but actually no. It's different. Jordan, whatever you may think of her, is pretty good on a horse.

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