Book Two of the Winning Odds Series - The story of life on the backside of a Thoroughbred racetrack.
When Nottingham Downs is forced into bankruptcy, Ben Miller steps in to save the day. "Respected horseman, trainer of stake horses, breeder, farm owner, family man." Everyone said if there was anyone who could save the day it would be Ben. He had no idea what lie ahead....
Odds on Favorite is the much-anticipated continuation to Favored to Win. Book Two of the Winning Odds Series welcomes you back to Nottingham Downs. The people are the same; the ones you loved, the ones you laughed and cried with, the horses. But things have changed. The barns are in disrepair, animal rights is at the forefront, whip use, low handle, low purses, employee unrest, high profile Thoroughbred deaths all over the world, the news media....
Ben longs for the days when horse racing was a proud profession, when going to the racetrack every morning was a treat. Back when, "It was all about the horses."
Love, mystery, intrigue. Why are racetracks closing all over the country? Where do Thoroughbreds go when they leave the racetrack? What is going on with Tom? Is he for real? Dawn is shaking her head too. She's another one that has no idea. How did she get talked into this?
Author MaryAnn Myers has done it again. Drop what you're doing, don't fight it, settle back and enjoy. It's one hell of a ride!
Professional Reviews
Favored to Win and Odds on Favorite
I found Favored to Win by chance many years ago. It was one of those books I couldn't put down, interfering with all my other commitments until, sadly, I had finished it. Odds on Favorite just gave me the same experience. As a younger woman I spent some time working at racetracks (hotwalker/groom/stall cleaner et al when at the home farm), hard work/little money, exposed to the weather. I just wanted to be there, in the barns, with the horses. These books take me back, to the joy, the beauty, the exhaustion, the amazing-ness of how a crew of people can work together, with exquisite timing, to get it all done, while staying out of each others way and not getting themselves or somebody else hurt...and then do it again tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow....
Riding is fun, but horses, domesticated for our service and enjoyment, need staff to care for them. We all do it as a labor of love. MaryAnn catches all of that, can't wait for the next in this fabulous series...
and, by the way, kudos to you MaryAnn, for your willingness to speak up about things that need changed.
Dick Francis, meet your successor.
Horses, Racing, & Compassionate Horsemen and Horsewomen
MaryAnn Myers does it again with this story about life around the race track. Skipping ahead a few years after the story that captivated all of us in Favored to Win, MaryAnn brings back our favorite characters and adds a few more that we grow to love.
This book is a very fun read that kept me up late into the evening since I wanted to know what happened next. Dawn and friends take on even more with the purchase of Nottingham Downs and our beloved characters deal with some of the tough issues in the Horse Racing world. Along the way we are shown the humanity of some people in the horse world and we come to learn that our first judgments about people may not be right because we have not walked in his or her shoes.
This book has some good horse races and I honestly feel as though I walked along in the scenes as the story was told.
Right On!
This book approaches some of the gravest problems involving the thoroughbred racing game......they have to do anything and everything to get people back to the track, which is very often a fun thing to do........that's why Zenyatta was so good for the business, people loved her and rooted for her and went to actually see her. and the rehab and rehoming must also by address by serious horse lovers everywhere....I know because we had several very successful show hunters/jumpers that were rehabbed thoroughbreds and we loved them to death, took great care of them and they had long and productive lives. I hope MaryAnn Myers will write more..........I'll b there to buy it
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