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

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Lehigh University is mourning one of its own following the passing of the school's first female president. A statement posted to the university's website announced that Alice P. Gast, ...

Diane Crump, the pioneering jockey who in 1970 became the first female to ride in the Kentucky Derby, died Jan. 1, her ...

LONDON (AP) — Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, the stepsister of teenage diarist Anne Frank and a tireless educator about the ...

The horse racing icon became the first woman in history to ride in a professional horse race in 1969, before becoming the ...

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Crump went on to win 228 races before riding her last race in 1998, a month shy of her 50th birthday and nearly 30 years ...

Diane Crump, who became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race in 1969 before blazing a trail in the Kentucky ...

Diane Crump, the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby in 1970, died Thursday after a battle with brain cancer, ...

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.

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 ...