Diane Crump, the pioneering jockey who made history as the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race in 1969 and subsequently became the first female jockey in the Kentucky Derby a year later, has died at the age of 77.
Her daughter, Della Payne, confirmed to The Associated Press that Crump passed away on Thursday night in hospice care in Winchester, Virginia. She had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer in October.
