Every duke and earl and peer is here   Everyone who should be here is here   What a smashing, positively dashing spectacle   The ascot opening day      At the gate are all the horses   Waiting for the cue to fly away   What a gripping, absolutely ripping   Moment at the ascot opening day      Pulses rushing, faces flushing   Heartbeats speed up, I have never been so keyed up   And second now they'll begin to run,   Hark a bell is ringing, they are springing forward look, it has begun      What a frenzied moment that was   Didn't they maintain an exhausting pace?   'Twas a thrilling, absolutely chilling   Running of the ascot opening race