| It was the first open win of the season for the Oxenholme-based four-year-old and odds-on favourite Sunny Bay was third. |
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| Crosby is a 15-year-old phenom from Nova Scotia who is the odds-on favourite to be the first overall pick in the 2005 NHL draft. |
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| Despite his team's late start, the 22-year-old driver from Kilgore, Texas, is the odds-on favorite to win the national championship. |
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| At 75 years old, Harry was still the odds-on favorite to win the tournaments at the Obelisk. |
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| The team is perched atop the Pacific International Junior Hockey League standings and odds-on favourites to repeat as playoff champions. |
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| They came to Portlaoise as odds-on favourites to win and had to produce the goods. |
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| The six-year-old finished second behind odds-on favourite October Mist, trained by Mary Reveley, at Wetherby earlier this month. |
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| The Cobblers would certainly be odds-on to complete the promotion that most pundits predicted back in August. |
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| The mare is expected to start odds-on today and those connected with the principal opposition are under no illusions as to the task facing them. |
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| The formbook suggests it is a one horse race with the Worth Valley side odds-on favourites. |
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| But the Irishman believes two-time Gold Cup winner Best Mate, who is odds-on for the hat-trick, is better than ever this year. |
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| At Goodwood today, it is odds-on that a horse will equal a feat not seen in 30 years. |
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| Mr. Donilon was the odds-on favorite to succeed General James Jones, the outgoing national security adviser. |
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| Britain's first new racecourse for 60 years is odds-on to showcase top-flight racing. |
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| Life of Pi immediately became the odds-on favorite to win, with more bets placed on it than any other Booker nominee ever. |
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| Huckerby looked odds-on to score as he lifted the ball towards goal but Michael Oakes read the situation well and made an outstanding block. |
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| He was odds-on to win a seventh championship despite controversy ahead of the 2004 turf season, but lost out to Frankie Dettori. |
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| As the feature on this page explains, this idea is a runner, if not an odds-on certainty. |
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| Punters believing the flashy chestnut son of Lord Ballina to be as unbeatable as Sunline backed him in to just short of odds-on favorite. |
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| After all, if a kid is talented at five, odds-on they will still be talented ten years down the line. |
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| They have to be the odds-on favorite to win the Super Bowl now. |
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| Howard Dean looks to be the odds-on favorite to lead the party. |
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| Early betting has the boys as odds-on favourites to claim the top spot with their gushy ballad, but the girls' effort is gaining fast. |
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| So these favourites may be odds-on, but if so, there's value in the odds-on. |
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| Well, Germany is the odds-on favorite to win tomorrow's World Cup Quarter Final in Seoul, but an ambitious American team feels it has nothing to lose. |
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| Mutharika is seen as the odds-on favourite to win the presidency, mainly because the opposition has been unable to unite behind a single candidate. |
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| In our yearly bid to help you along with your office or party Oscar pool, here are the odds-on faves in the official categories, at least according to our readers. |
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| Crucially, no-one else had died in Emmerdale over Christmas so it was odds-on the Grim Reaper was sharpening his scythe for someone come the turn of New Year. |
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| Emanuel, despite his unpopularity, is still the odds-on favorite for re-election. |
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| Jordan had been the bookies' odds-on destination. |
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| She was sent off as the odds-on favourite but despite a perfect two-hole trip behind him, she couldn't get anywhere near Val Taurus in the stretch. |
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| No wonder every year at the Cannes Film Festival the cinephiles joke that the odds-on favorite for the Palme d'Or is always an anti-American film. |
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| In 1972, Maine Sen. edmund Muskie was the odds-on favorite to win the Democratic Presidential nomination. |
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| He was running for governor in 2010 and was the odds-on favorite. |
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| No matter how you slice it, Romney is clearly the odds-on favorite. |
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| He is now the odds-on favorite among bookies and cognescenti. |
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| Woeful Willie overdosed on the Ovaltine at Lingfield on Saturday night and threw away a race he should have cakewalked on odds-on Kamari. |
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| Monaghan deserve to be odds-on following their Tyrone triumph but Armagh seem a shade overpriced after their victory over Cavan. |
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| McCoy's other ride, Arctiid, started odds-on for the two-mile novice hurdle, but after making the running, faded to be fourth. |
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| The trophy had barely been lifted before the first press release went out from the bookmakers announcing Norwich as odds-on to go down next season. |
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| In the American League, front-running Cleveland was an odds-on favorite with the men who make book on baseball. |
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| As was the case in his days with Pipe, Courbaril set out to make all and soon had the odds-on Navarre Samson in trouble. |
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| While Fiji look odds-on to join New Caledonia in advancing from Group A, the battle for semi-final places in Group B is still too close to call with three sides locked on the six-point mark. |
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| I WATCHED Kieren Fallon's winning comeback ride and had to admire his supreme skills in getting the odds-on jolly The Bogberry up on the line. |
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| Millenary came put retirement plans on hold as he denied odds-on favourite Distinction in the Weatherbys Insurance Lonsdale Cup. |
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| A poisened foot was found to be the cause of that flop, but odds-on Paco was just too hot this time. |
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| The odds-on Vercingetorix was well-beaten before the straight and Gwencily Berbas brushed aside Lettre De Cachet before the last to win by 11 lengths. |
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| Bafana Bafana will be desperate to make a winning start in front of their own supporters, but even if they do oblige at odds-on, it may not be a spectacular encounter. |
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| Bookies make them long odds-on chances to make it to Rio but recent disappointing performances in qualifiers suggest the odds men are wearing rose-tinted glasses. |
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| When Shoemaker wins or loses by a nose, it is an odds-on bet that a whoop-de-doo rider would have lost by lengths, having wasted the horse prematurely. |
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| Still with a bit to do approaching the business end, the Notnowcato filly picked up most takingly to cut down odds-on jolly Cotton Trader, with a subsequent winner in third. |
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| Everyone wanted the odds-on Flame Gun ridden by the Noble Lord Oaksey. |
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| Rooney, who took home the matchball against Arsenal and Bolton, is 33-1 with Hills to threepeat with United also odds-on across the board for the victory. |
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| Gale looked odds-on to notch his ton but on 99 he tried to hoist a long hop outside off-stump from Franks only to balloon a simple catch to Sidebottom at mid-on. |
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