First female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby dies at 77

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 female jockey in the Kentucky Derby, has died. She was 77. Crump was diagnosed in October with an aggressive form of brain cancer and died Thursday night in hospice care in Winch...

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