Aug. 31 (UPI) -- There's a reason Saratoga is known as "Graveyard of Champions," and Saturday's Travers Stakes added another chapter to that legend as Leading Change, in just his third start, defeated most of the top 3-year-olds in the nation, including the winners of the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes.

Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Note: It was 58 years ago (Aug. 27, 1968) that I first reported for work at United Press International in Chicago, five floors above the Billy Goat Tavern. I've been writing for the company continuously ever since. Sunday will be the 45th anniversary of the first horse race I covered for UPI -- the inaugural Arlington Million.