Don Combs, who trained Dust Commander to win the 1970 Kentucky Derby, died May 25 at Sayre Christian Village in Lexington, a Sayre Christian Village executive confirmed to BloodHorse May 29. He was 86 ...

Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse race and a year later became the first female jockey in the Kentucky Derby, has died.

Don Combs, trainer of Robert and Verna Lehmann's Dust Commander, the longshot Kentucky Derby winner in 1970, passed away following a massive stroke Sunday at Sayre Christian Village in his hometown of ...

Diane Crump, the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby, has been diagnosed with aggressive brain cancer. Crump made history in 1969 as the first woman to race professionally in the U.S.

While covering the 1970 Kentucky Derby with Hunter S. Thompson for an obscure sports magazine, Ralph Steadman had his sketchpad hurled on by a julep-sodden horse dealer before a race. The artist had ...

Diane Crump riding Fathom at the 1970 Kentucky Derby. Jay Thomas / Courier Journal Diane Crump, the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby, died Thursday night in Winchester, Va. She was 77 ...

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. Her death was announced by her daughter, Della Payne, who ...