Diane Crump made history at Churchill Downs in 1970.
Diane Crump with Fathom, her mount at the Kentucky Derby, in 1970. By Eliza McGraw May 4 at 7:00 AM Fifty years ago, jockey Diane Crump made her way to the saddling area at Florida’s Hialeah Park. Guards surrounded her. A crowd of 5,000 pressed in, vying for a look at the woman who would change thoroughbred racing forever.
The rules barred Crump from racing but not from racehorses. She exercised horses, groomed them, and ponied them on their way to the starting gate. “I just kept pressing on in the hopes that one day [being a jockey] would become a reality,” she said. Meanwhile, officials grew weary of the tumult over women’s riding. The Florida Racing Commission met the morning of Jan. 31 and said it would stiffen penalties against jockeys who refused to ride. “If [the jockeys] back out now, God help them,” said one Florida State Racing Commission supervisor.
Crump kept riding and started winning races. That summer, she worked at Delaware Park alongside her trainer husband, Don Divine. One heckler, Crump said, attacked her every day, saying, “Go home and clean the kitchen, go home and do the laundry.” “The fact that I was in a jocks’ room waiting for the Derby was a great feeling. And the crowd and in the spring — it’s the most awesome feeling you could ever imagine,” she said.
Crump has spent her life with horses. She retired from race riding in 1999. “She was able to make this happen for herself in a world that really didn’t want her to be part of it,” Shrager said. “She was a jockey for nearly 40 years and did it because she insisted that she had to do it.”
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