First female to ride in Kentucky Derby, Diane Crump, dead at 77

Crump went on to win 228 races before riding her last race in 1998, a month shy of her 50th birthday and nearly 30 years ...

Trailblazing female jockey Diane Crump dies aged 77

The horse racing icon became the first woman in history to ride in a professional horse race in 1969, before becoming the ...

Diane Crump, the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby, dies at 77

After Crump made history in 1970, it would be 14 more years before another female jockey would ride in the Derby.
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