Sentence examples for as second favourite from inspiring English sources

William Hill bookmakers have the barn owl as second favourite behind the robin to take the win.

Bookmaker Paddy Power has ranked Philomena as second favourite to win the Golden Lion, behind Stray Dogs - the only Chinese language film in the competition.

It's taken 10 seasons to happen, but as second favourite Bonfire and outsider Minimise Risk become Balding's first Derby runners, you can't help but suspect destiny dictated it.

Following yesterday's draw, South Africa were installed as second favourites with France, England, Australia completing the bookmakers' top five.

McNamara's men will rightly start as second favourites, but they are capable of upsetting the odds.

Unfortunately, the two countries will indeed meet at the next global gathering in New Zealand, and on this evidence, England will start as second favourites in a two-horse race.

Certainly the travelling support in Paris – already on anthem-booing terms with Uefa, and more recently appalled by the extravagant pricing policy for this tie – are more likely to be comforted by City's status as second favourites.

England began as second favourites behind Germany.

Rangers are currently listed as second favourites for the Scottish Cup by the tournament's sponsors, with odds of 10/3.

And Mancini's men go into the match as second favourites, given their opponents' fine recent form, City's 3-0 defeatoto Liverpool last time out and their loss of talismanic striker Carlos Tevez to injury.

Smitten-Downes, 27, was installed as third favourite, after wearing a plunging sci-fi themed dress, described as "Raquel Welch's One Million Years BC meets C-3PO" at a rehearsal for the final.