Horses and Weather and Cars, Oh My!

[epistrophia]

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I've been a bit hooked on the BBC's Aintree coverage for the past three days - not having Channel 4 or any satellite sporty channels, I rarely if ever get to see racing on telly, and it's made me quite excited.

I'm not really a big Grand National fan - 20 horses is tight on that course, and 40 is just silly; of course there are going to be

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Also, does anyone know what the theme music is for the BBC's coverage of Aintree?

[gillyp]

I don't know for sure, 'cause I don;t do the National, but I just switched over for the news, caught the end of what looks like it might be the BBC coverage and a string-quartet version of Eleanor Rigby was playing. Would that be it?

We has frozen rain too - what was a beautiful, sunny day is getting ominously dark and dangerous-looking now. ::meeps quietly, lest the Weather Gods hear::

Re: Also, does anyone know what the theme music is for the BBC's coverage of Aintree?

[epistrophia]

a string-quartet version of Eleanor Rigby

No, definitely not Eleanor Rigby. It sounded more like a power ballad in the Whitney vein, but orchestrated...