The handicap imposed by the awkward notations operated less severely in Fermat's favourite field of study, the theory of numbers; but here, unfortunately, he found no correspondent to share his enthusiasm.
The philosophy of science was a favourite field of the LWS.
At Epsom on 3 June Paradox, ridden by Fred Webb, was made the 4/1 second favourite in a field of twelve runners, with Melton starting the 15/8 favourite.
To his hosts' undoubted consternation, he died during a game of his favourite sport on the playing fields of England.
After the death of Socialist Party candidate Eduardo Campos in a recent plane crash, Ms Silva is suddenly the anti-establishment favourite in a field of candidates all seen as part of the political elite by an increasingly frustrated and sceptical electorate.
He returned to racing against horses of his own age, starting the 8/15 favourite of a field of ten runners for the six-furlong Middle Park Plate at Newmarket.
On 6 May 1892 La Fleche started 1/2 favourite in a field of seven for the 1000 Guineas.
In the Cambridgeshire over nine furlongs on 27 October, St. Gatien, now undefeated in eleven races, started 2/1 favourite in a field of twenty-seven.
"If you build it, (they) will come" is one of my favourite movie lines from Phil Alden Robinson's Fields of Dreams.
When he announced he was running for the top job after Labour's eviction from power in May, he was the second-favourite in a field of five.
