A lover of horses since she was a child, she helped women jockeys break into the world of professional horse racing ...

Jockey Diane Crump is the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby. Photo by Jay Thomas, Courier Journal. April 29, 1970 Courier Journal Diane Crump Photo2 Photo by Jay Thomas via Imagn Content ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jockey Diane Crump exercising horse at Gulfstream Park race track in 1968. - Ray Fisher/The Chronicle Collection/Getty Images ...

Diane Crump, the first woman to ride as a jockey in the Kentucky Derby, has died. She was 77. Crump passed away Thursday, according to a GoFundMe page started by her daughter, Della Payne.

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

Diane Crump, the first woman to ride as a jockey in the Kentucky Derby, has died. She was 77. Crump passed away Thursday, according to a GoFundMe page started by her daughter, Della Payne. She had ...

Diane Crump, a jockey who in 1970 became the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby, died Thursday in Winchester, Virginia. She was 77. Her death was announced by her daughter, Della Payne, who ...