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Just not at the racesIt has probably not escaped your attention that I am something of a devotee of the sport of Kings, which, to those of you without the requisite level of breeding, means horse racing. I was therefore more than impressed to see that Stoxx invited selected guests to a VIP day at Glorious Goodwood, one of the poshest racing fixtures on the UK social scene. I was somewhat less impressed to discover that my name had somehow eluded the guest list, although to be fair I had planned to go solo anyway and after a bit of selective minesweeping in the corporate enclosure I hardly missed the attractions of the free bar. Anyway, various representatives of FOW did manage to make it along to what proved to be an excellent day's racing, although reports seeping back from those in...