{"id":62911,"date":"2026-01-03T00:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/diane-crump-famed-jockey-and-the-first-woman-to-ride-in-the-kentucky-derby-dies-at-77\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T00:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T00:25:23","slug":"diane-crump-famed-jockey-and-the-first-woman-to-ride-in-the-kentucky-derby-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/diane-crump-famed-jockey-and-the-first-woman-to-ride-in-the-kentucky-derby-dies-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane Crump, famed jockey and the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby, dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>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 <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kentucky-derby-horses-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Kentucky Derby<\/a><\/span>, has died. She was 77.<\/p>\n<p>Crump was diagnosed in October with an aggressive form of brain cancer and died Thursday night in hospice care in Winchester, Virginia, her daughter, Della Payne, told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/02\/323cae63-34ce-4555-ad14-c67f34857a15\/thumbnail\/620x413\/1c412d02aa338595ff17f082eddf22df\/ap25315675628933.jpg#\" alt=\"Obit Diane Crump \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/02\/323cae63-34ce-4555-ad14-c67f34857a15\/thumbnail\/620x413\/1c412d02aa338595ff17f082eddf22df\/ap25315675628933.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/02\/323cae63-34ce-4555-ad14-c67f34857a15\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/951cb3a0cf1600d70c8c99ed4980655a\/ap25315675628933.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Crump went on to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.equibase.com\/profiles\/Results.cfm?type=People&amp;searchType=J&amp;eID=9153&amp;rbt=TB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">win 228 races<\/a>\u00a0before 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.<\/p>\n<p>Crump was among several women to fight successfully at the time to be granted a jockey license, but they still needed a trainer willing to put them in a race and then for the race to run. Others were thwarted when male jockeys boycotted or threatened to boycott if a woman was riding.<\/p>\n<p>Photographs of Crump&#8217;s walk to the saddling area at Hialeah show her protected by security guards as a crowd pressed in on all sides. Six of the original 12 jockeys in the race had refused to ride, Mark Shrager wrote in his biography, &#8220;Diane Crump: A Horse Racing Pioneer&#8217;s Life in the Saddle.&#8221; Among them were future legends Angel Cordero Jr., Jorge Velasquez and Ron Turcotte, who four years later would ride Secretariat to win the Triple Crown.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/02\/14a8b615-f2cb-4e21-8e54-7f0bc8d35728\/thumbnail\/620x413\/952a5fa983b78bda41ed327838c09b63\/ap25315675572693.jpg#\" alt=\"Obit Diane Crump \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/02\/14a8b615-f2cb-4e21-8e54-7f0bc8d35728\/thumbnail\/620x413\/952a5fa983b78bda41ed327838c09b63\/ap25315675572693.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/02\/14a8b615-f2cb-4e21-8e54-7f0bc8d35728\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/47c8960421335c726c649830707d760b\/ap25315675572693.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">In this undated 1970 photo, jockey Diane Crump, 21, poses for a photo with Fathom in Louisville, Kentucky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But other jockeys stepped up, and as the 12 horses made their way onto the track, the bugler skipped the traditional call to the post and instead played &#8220;Smile for Me, My Diane.&#8221; Crump, on a 50-1 longshot called Bridle &#8216;n Bit, finished 10th, but the barrier had been broken. A month later, Bridle &#8216;n Bit gave Crump her first victory at Gulfstream Park.<\/p>\n<p>She again made history in 1970 by becoming the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby. She won the first race that day at <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/150th-kentucky-derby-history-and-spectacle-at-churchill-downs\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Churchill Downs<\/a><\/span>, but again her mount for the history-making race was outclassed. She finished 15th out of 17 on Fathom.<\/p>\n<p>It would be 14 more years before another female jockey would ride in the Derby, with only four more to follow in the decades since.<\/p>\n<p>The racetrack president at Churchill Downs, Mike Anderson, said in a statement on Friday that Crump &#8220;will be forever respected and fondly remembered in horse racing lore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He noted that Crump, who had been riding since age 5 and galloping young Thoroughbreds since she was a teenager, &#8220;was an iconic trailblazer who admirably fulfilled her childhood dreams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/02\/dcc87fe9-5594-4cd5-b9c9-c00206f50e02\/thumbnail\/620x413\/9a9e19fb01e6a1db8c0032a7a745fe9f\/ap25315675550678.jpg#\" alt=\"Obit Diane Crump \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/02\/dcc87fe9-5594-4cd5-b9c9-c00206f50e02\/thumbnail\/620x413\/9a9e19fb01e6a1db8c0032a7a745fe9f\/ap25315675550678.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/01\/02\/dcc87fe9-5594-4cd5-b9c9-c00206f50e02\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/a2f43b9a69d8d0f6fe28aa41a728a676\/ap25315675550678.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Diane Crump, apprentice jockey, kisses her mount Tou Ritzi, after winning a Churchill Downs race in Louisville, Kentucky, April 29, 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Gene Herrick \/ AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chris Goodlett, of the Kentucky Derby Museum, said &#8220;Diane Crump&#8217;s name stands for courage, grit, and progress.&#8221; He added: &#8220;Her determination in the face of overwhelming odds opened doors for generations of female jockeys and inspired countless others far beyond racing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After retiring from racing, Crump settled in Virginia and started a business helping people buy and sell horses.<\/p>\n<p>In later years, she took her therapy dogs, all Dachshunds, to visit patients in hospitals and other medical clinics. Some with chronic illnesses she visited regularly for years.<\/p>\n<p>Payne said when her mother went into assisted living a month ago, she was already &#8220;quasi-famous&#8221; in the medical center because of how much time she had spent there, and a &#8220;steady stream&#8221; of doctors and nurses came to see her. One of the last people to visit her was the man who mowed her lawn.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter said Crump would never take &#8220;no&#8221; for an answer, whether it was becoming a jockey or helping someone in need.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t say she was as competitive as she was stubborn,&#8221; Payne said. &#8220;If someone was counting on her, she could never let someone down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Late in life, Crump&#8217;s mottos were literally tattooed on her forearms: &#8220;Kindness&#8221; on the left, &#8220;Compassion&#8221; on the right.<\/p>\n<p>Crump will be cremated and her ashes interred between her parents in Prospect Hill Cemetery in Front Royal, Virginia.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/diane-crump-first-woman-kentucky-derby-jockey-dies\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6702],"class_list":["post-62911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us","tag-kentucky-derby"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Diane Crump, famed jockey and the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby, dies at 77 - World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Diane Crump died Thursday night in hospice care, her daughter said. 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