Tags: Horse Race, Race.
The Sapling Stakes is an American Ungraded Thoroughbred horse race run annually in early September at Monmouth Park in Oceanport New Jersey. Open to 2-year-olds it is raced on dirt over a distance of six furlongs for a purse of $150000.First run in 1883 the New Jersey Legislature passed a law in 1894 that banned parimutuel betting in the state and the track closed its doors.