Diane Crump, the 1st female jockey to ride in Kentucky Derby, dies at 77

Jockey Diane Crump sports a mud pack on her cap and face after winning a Kentucky Derby race riding Right Sean, in Louisville, Kentucky, May 2, 1970. Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later be

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.

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