Diane Crump, the pioneering Thoroughbred jockey whose riding breakthroughs set the stage for generations of female riders, died Jan. 1 at an inpatient hospice facility in Winchester, Va. She was 77.
Diane Crump, the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby, died Jan. 1, according to a social-media post from her family, after being diagnosed in late 2025 with glioblastoma, an aggressive ...