The Young America Stakes is a discontinued Thoroughbred horse race that was run annually at the Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Inaugurated in 1977, the Young America Stakes evolved to become an important end of October/early November event for two-year-olds.
Run on dirt from inception in 1977 through 1990, at its peak in the mid-1980s it was a Grade 1 event offering a purse of $500,000 and had been attracting such horses as U.S.
Forevere Casting, ridden by jockey Eddie Delahoussaye won the inaugural running of the Young America Stakes in November 1977, winning the purse of $144,500 with a victory by a neck in 1:45.6 over Believe It.
[2] There was another "Young America Stakes" raced in the last decades of the 19th century at a racetrack in Nashville, Tennessee.