text: which song from "my fair lady" opens ascot?   ascot gavotte   ladies and gentlemen  ev'ry duke and earl and peer is here  ev'ryone who should be here is here.  what a smashing, positively dashing  spectacle: the ascot op'ning day.  at the gate are all the horses  waiting for the cue to fly away.  what a gripping, absolutely ripping  moment at the ascot op'ning 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 op'ning race.