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Cal Cup Goes Back to the Day 'Sonny' Sparkled for Spawr

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

Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first ...
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Trailblazing female jockey who made Kentucky Derby history dies aged 77

Diane Crump, the first woman to ride in a professional horse race and the first female jockey to compete in the Kentucky Derby, has died at the age of 77, it has been announced. Crump was diagnosed ...

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