Golden age

When I’m good I’m very good, but when I’m bad I’m better

In a Cary Grant film in which she effectively played herself, Mae West declared, ‘When I’m good I’m very good, but when I’m bad I’m better.’ Exotic Dancer, the six-year-old trained by Jonjo O’Neill who runs in the familiar pink silks of Sir Robert Ogden, can be good, and he can be an absolute stinker.