A competitor who is strongly fancied to win a race or other contest.
（赛跑或其他竞赛中）被特别看好会赢的人
hot favourites to retain the trophy
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United, nine times winners of this competition and the red hot favourites to retain their crown again, simply couldn't live with the scorching tempo set by Rovers on the day.
Regardless of who is unveiled as the new team boss of Raith Rovers, and the man who scored 154 league goals for the club as a player remains the hot favourite, the job at hand is an onerous one.
Australia, who can boast 750,000 affiliated players, are hot favourites to retain the title won in Kuala Lumpur in 1998.
Along with Jason Gardener, Marlon Devonish and Mark Lewis-Francis, the Brits defeated hot favourites America by just a 100th of a second.
Never bet when you are at a track where a sponsor owns the hot favourite in the race that his or her firm are sponsoring.
Punters like me are uneasy when we witness things such as hot favourites finishing down the field with only lame explanations offered by trainers and jockeys.
He was a hot favourite for that race and punters will be seeking to recover losses tomorrow.
Ms Drown won in South Swindon with a comfortable 7,300 vote majority at the last election, making Labour hot favourites to win it
As a 16-year-old she went into the Young Musician competition a hot favourite among those who already knew her work.
The hot favorite for that contest is Azamour, owned by the Aga Khan.