Diane Crump, the pioneering jockey who in 1970 became the first female to ride in the Kentucky Derby, died Jan. 1, her ...

Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first ...

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 after her trailblazing ride at Hialeah Park in Florida on Feb. 7, 1969.

Diane Crump in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first female ...

She will forever be respected and fondly remembered in horse racing lore,” said Mike Anderson, president of Churchill Downs Racetrack.

Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first female jockey in the Kentucky Derby, has died. She was 77. Crump was diagnosed ...