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

In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...

Diane Crump, who in 1970 became the first woman to ride professionally in the Kentucky Derby, died on Thursday aged 77.

Ron Turcotte, the jockey who rode the legendary Secretariat to the Triple Crown in 1973 and won more than 3,000 races over his two-decade career, died Friday morning of natural causes at his home in ...

North American Racing Academy is the only jockey school in the United States. June 12, 2013— -- Wearing a bright-pink helmet, Vanessa Reill flies down the dirt track on the back of a racehorse.

Amidst the thrills of photo finishes, the magnificence of galloping hooves and powerful strides, there’s a brewing controversy in horse racing that seems to have taken the shape of a full-blown saga.

The compelling and inspirational journey of champion jockey Kazushi Kimura is brought to life in Kazushi Kimura: A Rising Star, a mini documentary created and co-produced by Woodbine's content team ...

BALTIMORE - Jockeys are among the fittest athletes in the sporting world. Only 8% of these elite athletes are women, and one of the most successful jockeys in the mid-Atlantic region, of either sex, ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Horsemen’s Park is hosting a second weekend of races, starting today. The track hosted its first race since 2021 last weekend, with more planned in the future. While a day at the ...

Why do we have jockeys, anyhow? That’s the question we’ve been noodling on since the spectacle of the Preakness, where the steed Bodexpress lost his rider — or the rider lost his horse — and, as the ...

Here is an expert video analysis of today’s Race of the Day from Daily Racing Form – the most trusted source of horse racing news and information since 1894. Saturday’s DRF Race of the Day is Aqueduct ...

Crump was the first female jockey to ride professionally in a U.S. horse race in 1969, and the first woman to ride in the ...