Crump was the first woman to ride in a pari-mutuel race in the United States; her participation in the event was so contested that she required a full police escort through the crowds at the Hialeah Park Race Track. Diane Crump (born 1948) is an American jockey and horse trainer. Then, when I rode my last race, the jockeys room had been expanded and it was 50-50 women and men. I don’t know if I could have gone through what they did and made it as a jockey back then.”While there were several important firsts as female riders gained equality with men, it was Crump who is recognized as the first woman to compete as a licensed jockey at a U.S. racetrack.Crump paved the way for a legion of women in future years when, undaunted by the widespread hostility against her for tearing down the walls of a males-only bastion, she rode Bridle ’n Bit in a race at “It always impacted me, being the first female jockey,” said the 68-year-old Crump during a recent interview with America’s Best Racing. I have to credit a guy named Melman from the Pace Advantage Message Board who hooked me up with Diane's web site and email address. By the 1970s at Florida Downs we had a trailer in the parking lot.
I rode my first race in 1969, and I'd say that in the 1970s, it stayed tough (for women).
I didn’t care what anybody had to say or thought. I was ready. The Florida racing commission refused to honor the Maryland ruling but it lost that argument in court.Rubin also gained her license in Florida and was named on a horse in a Jan. 15, 1969 race at Tropical Park, but again the male jockeys threatened to boycott.
There's really nothing else that matched that. Diane Crump broke the Kentucky Derby's gender barrier in 1970. Interview with Kelsey McGinty; Website Author; Diane Crump - a leading lady.
She talks with CNN Opinion about her career and her hopes for the next generation of women riders. (Crump lost her debut race, but continued to ride professionally and won her first race two weeks later, despite many males at the track shouting at her to "go back to the kitchen and cook dinner" and stating that her becoming a professional jockey would lead to the downfall of racing (Crump retired from race riding in 1985 and today has her own
I could beat the leading rider at the meet in a stretch duel and that didn’t matter. As part of this large annual conference, representatives from several major corporations and universities will be on hand to meet with students pursuing careers in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields as well as Business, Finance, and Marketing.
We worked horses together, we broke horses together and they were the hardest on me. And when I went to the jock's room there, they had increased the size of it so that the men's jock's room and the women's jock's room had equal space, 50-50.
Where ever you go now, women have the opportunity to ride and that’s awesome. We had the right to ride and they were going to make sure we did.”While Brown was willing to put Crump on his horses at Hialeah, Crump’s historic ride came as a surprise to her.“It was a frustrating time because I knew the day was coming for me to ride in a race, I just didn’t know when it would happen. Equal. I was a part of that whole operation and that meant a lot to me, to be involved with everything -- all the care, with legwork, just because I just loved it so much. I’d win race after race and yet it didn’t matter. You did have to prove yourself, over and over again -- all of us in that first era.