Sapling Stakes Sapling Stakes 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 was raced on dirt over a distance of six furlongs for a current purse of $100,000. In 2014, its distance was set at 1 mile or 8 furlongs. 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. In 1946, the state legislature passed a bill providing for state regulation of horse racing and the Sapling
The Young Lords: A Reader of the Young Lords in Chicago exists mostly through oral history, the New York City chapter's actions are preserved in printed archival materials, like the newspaper "Pa'lante". Editor Darrel Enck-Wanzer states in the introduction of the book that the editors' motivation for publishing this collection of Young Lords archival materials was the lack of historical acknowledgment of the group and their political actions: "If only the history of [the Young Lords] had been written by now... It is unjust that when the name 'Young Lords' is uttered, most people have little or no understanding of what Marta Moreno calls, 'this