Zozos feels like the kind of horse you’re supposed to bet against. With five starts, the 4-year-old easily is the least experienced entrant among nine Saturday at Fair Grounds in the Grade 3, $150,000 Louisiana Stakes. He’s never won a stakes, is eligible for a third-level allowance race, and his winning return Dec. 17 from a six-month layoff produced a 92 Beyer Speed Figure, nothing special. Zozos likely will be bet into favoritism well below his 3-1 morning-line odds. Yet Zozos is a hard horse to bet against. His high-water mark as a spring 3-year-old, a competitive second-place finish behind Epicenter last March in the Louisiana Derby, was both promising and fast, with Zozos getting a 98 Beyer. And that December comeback looked visually impressive, with Zozos rating kindly for Corey Lanerie, who rides him Saturday, while being taken off the fence and into the middle of the Fair Grounds track before the half-mile pole. Going along comfortably from farther off the pace than he’d raced before his layoff, Zozos swooped past horses on the far turn and swallowed up the front-runners to clear his second allowance condition. He won going away in an excellent stepping-stone to his stakes return. :: DRF Bets players have exclusive access to FREE DRF Past Performances - Classic or Formulator! Join today.  “I wasn’t dead set on even running here,” said Brad Cox, who trains Zozos for the colt’s breeders, Barry and Joni Butzow. “He’s still a three-other-than. In the morning, he tipped his hand he’s ready to run. That’s why we’re in here.” Cox’s second entrant Forza Di Oro can’t be discounted. Trained by Bill Mott for his first eight starts, Forza Di Oro returned from a long layoff Aug. 20 at Monmouth Park while in the Jerry Hollendorfer barn and didn’t run a step in the Iselin Stakes. In his first start for Cox, the Dec. 26 Tenacious, Forza Di Oro bid early into a solid pace before succumbing to the first two home, Happy American and Mr. Wireless, both of whom return for the Louisiana. “I think he got a lot out of that last race,” Cox said. “Physically, the horse looks unbelievable.” Mr. Wireless broke from post 11 in the Tenacious but worked out a favorable trip and had every chance to win at the furlong pole. Instead, he failed to change leads through the homestretch and offered no resistance when late-running Happy American cruised up on his outside. Happy American, a 5-year-old Neil Pessin-trained Runhappy gelding, is a late-bloomer. The Tenacious marked his first stakes win, but Happy American might have one more level yet to find. He’s a horse that needs pace, which might be in somewhat short supply Saturday. Run Classic, Mr. Wireless’s Bret Calhoun-trained stablemate, could lead from an inside post position, and on ability is entirely capable of winning. He was burned up in a speed duel two races ago at Churchill Downs and last out, Calhoun theorized, didn’t care for the Oaklawn Park track surface, finishing fourth as the 6-5 favorite Dec. 17 in the Tinsel Stakes. Excuses aside, Run Classic’s two best races came at seven furlongs and one mile, and one-turn racing likely brings forth his best. The Louisiana is likely to bring forth a first stakes win for the underlaid favorite Zozos. Silverbulletday Stakes Chop Chop has nowhere to go but up. After finishing last of 13 as the surprise favorite Nov. 4 in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, she’ll be favored to beat six 3-year-old fillies Saturday in the $150,000 Silverbulletday Stakes. :: Bet the races with a $200 First Deposit Match and FREE Formulator PPs! Join DRF Bets. Chop Chop is 8-5 on the track’s morning line for the mile and 70-yard Silverbulletday, and despite her BC flop, Chop Chop figures to go off shorter than that for trainer Brad Cox and jockey Florent Geroux. A winner of two grass races to start her career, Chop Chop closed strongly to finish second behind Wonder Wheel on Oct. 7 at Keeneland in the Grade 1 Alcibiades on dirt. While Wonder Wheel validated the race’s form by returning to win the BC Juvenile Fillies, Chop Chop spun her wheels through a very wide journey. “I didn’t like her trip at all, wide the whole way,” said Cox, her trainer “I still like her a lot. Her works have been super good.” Chop Chop has worked in company with The Alys Look, who loomed at the quarter pole of the Dec. 26 Untapable Stakes before flattening out slightly in the final furlong to finish second, beaten 3 1/4 lengths by Pretty Mischievous, who awaits the Rachel Alexandra Stakes next month. Hayunevano could set the pace. Louisiana-bred Norah G’s connections have viewed her from the start as a route horse, and she tries two turns after three sprints. Amber Cascade and Forest Chimes won two divisions, races 7 and 10, of a maiden route race Dec. 31; Amber Cascade ran .11 of a second faster and got a 66 Beyer, while Forest Chimes earned a 78. If that number works out, she has a chance to cut down Chop Chop. The Silverbulletday is part of the Road to the Kentucky Oaks, with the first five finishers earning 20, 8, 6, 4, and 2 qualifying points. :: Want to learn more about handicapping and wagering? Check out DRF's Handicapping 101 and Wagering 101 pages.