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
A Young Lady Playing a Clavichord A Young Lady Playing a Clavichord Young Lady Playing a Clavichord is a 1660s genre painting by Gerrit Dou. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is today in a private collection. This painting by Dou was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1908, who wrote; "133. A YOUNG LADY PLAYING ON THE VIRGINALS. Sm. 45 and Suppl. 14 ; M. 301a, and see M. 301 and M. 302. A young lady, seen at three-quarter length in profile to the left, sits playing on the virginals, placed on a table covered with a Persian carpet. She turns