Town Talk: Deighton Cup featured flirty hats and sharp minds beneath

CUP AND SORCERY: Deighton Cup founders Dax Droski, Jordan Kallman and Tyson Villeneuve’s inexplicable mastery of the weather had record crowds pack Hastings Racecourse as the event’s 10th-annual aided Variety: The Children’s Charity. Despite less cigar smoking this year, attendees still dressed to the high eights. Men in snappy jackets and fedoras accompanied women wearing sky-high heels, girly-girl frocks and filmy fascinators. Pure pantomime, of course, especially for Nisha K