{"id":8415,"date":"2020-08-24T10:41:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T14:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?p=8415"},"modified":"2020-08-24T10:41:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T14:41:54","slug":"first-woman-jockey-to-ride-in-the-kentucky-derby-and-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?p=8415","title":{"rendered":"First Woman Jockey To Ride in The Kentucky Derby and Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<header class=\"css-n7i3yu euiyums2\">\n<div class=\"css-1vkm6nb ehdk2mb0\">\n<p id=\"link-46cd4a70\" class=\"css-hzs6w4 e1h9rw200\" data-test-id=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?attachment_id=6898\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6898\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6898\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?attachment_id=6898\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download.png?fit=240%2C210&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"240,210\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"download\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download.png?fit=240%2C210&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download.png?fit=240%2C210&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6898 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/download.png?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a>There is an adage that equestrians learn at an early age: If you fall off, you get right back on the horse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">The underlying perception is that if you wait, you will lose your confidence. You have got to get back up, dust yourself off and confront the challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">It is the kind of gritty resolve that builds resilience when facing setbacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Diane Crump has lived that mantra.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story-ad-1-wrapper\" class=\"css-2ninbb\">\n<div id=\"story-ad-1-slug\" class=\"css-l9onyx\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"story-ad-1\" class=\"ad story-ad-1-wrapper\" data-google-query-id=\"COLvsuyCtOsCFcnFhwodVOsG7A\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/29390238\/nyt\/sports\/horseracing_4__container__\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/07\/29\/sports\/horse-racing\/diane-crump.html\">Read on The New York Times&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"after-story-ad-1\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_8416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8416\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?attachment_id=8416\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8416\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8416\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?attachment_id=8416\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/120921102918-diane-crump-hialeah-racetrack-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg?fit=980%2C552&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"980,552\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"120921102918-diane-crump-hialeah-racetrack-horizontal-large-gallery\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/120921102918-diane-crump-hialeah-racetrack-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/120921102918-diane-crump-hialeah-racetrack-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg?fit=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-8416 size-feature\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/120921102918-diane-crump-hialeah-racetrack-horizontal-large-gallery.jpg?resize=600%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diane Crump at Hialeah Park in 1969<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">On Feb. 7, 1969, the 5-foot-4, 108-pound Ms. Crump rode in a 12-horse race at Hialeah Park in Florida, becoming the first female jockey to compete at a parimutuel track in America. To get to the starting gate that day, Ms. Crump scrapped her way through bursting camera flashbulbs and a catcalling crowd. She was surrounded by security guards. As the horses made their way onto the track, the bugler altered the call to post from the customary \u201cBoots and Saddles\u201d to \u201cSmile for Me, My Diane.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">If anything, those naysayers, who resented the lifting of the ban on female jockeys, made Ms. Crump want to be a jockey even more. \u201cThat\u2019s what happens when you\u2019re told you can\u2019t,\u201d she said. (Riding Bridle \u2018N Bit, she finished ninth in a field of 12.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">The next year, Ms. Crump, then 21, became the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby. She finished 15th in a field of 17 horses, riding Fathom. Since then, only five other women have competed in that Triple Crown race, and none have won it. (Not until 1993 did a woman \u2014 Julie Krone \u2014&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1993\/06\/06\/sports\/horse-racing-krone-and-colonial-affair-win-bittersweet-belmont.html\">win a Triple Crown race<\/a>, the Belmont Stakes.) Not until 2013 did a woman \u2014&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/07\/sports\/07jockey.html\">Anna Rose \u201cRosie\u201d Napravnik<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 compete in all three Triple Crown races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">For more than three decades, Ms. Crump made her living galloping, training and racing horses in the hardscrabble male-dominated sport. Insults, fuming male jockeys and even the intermittent physical threat were part of her work world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\">\n<div id=\"c-col-editors-picks\" class=\"css-j64t31\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story-ad-2-wrapper\" class=\"css-2ninbb\">\n<div id=\"after-story-ad-2\"><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">\u201cI didn\u2019t listen to that,\u201d she said. \u201cI was going to ride races and no matter what anyone had to say, no matter the criticism \u2014 \u2018you\u2019re not good enough, strong enough, cool and calm enough\u2019 \u2014 it didn\u2019t affect me. I was so passionate about what I did that I 100 percent ignored it. I never, ever let it be a part of me. I got on with it.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Over the years, Ms. Crump often found herself aboard the most difficult horses, the ones male jockeys had turned down, or those that were not the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me. Nonetheless, she won 228 races, earning her more than $1 million, according to statistics compiled by the database<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.equibase.com\/profiles\/Results.cfm?type=People&amp;searchType=J&amp;eID=9153&amp;rbt=TB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&nbsp;Equibase<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">She may not have won the run for the roses, but she did ride the winner in the opening race of the day of the 1970 Kentucky Derby. \u201cThat was awesome, and the fact that I was riding in the Derby was exciting,\u201d she said. \u201cI was a part of it. It was a big field. Fathom wasn\u2019t bred to go that far. He was bred to go a mile, not a mile and a quarter. He gave it a shot. So did I.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8417\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?attachment_id=8417\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8417\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8417\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?attachment_id=8417\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10299194_656764117692329_8731598343301846912_n.png?fit=483%2C604&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"483,604\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"10299194_656764117692329_8731598343301846912_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Diane Crump; Photo courtesy of Ms. Crump&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10299194_656764117692329_8731598343301846912_n.png?fit=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10299194_656764117692329_8731598343301846912_n.png?fit=483%2C604&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8417\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10299194_656764117692329_8731598343301846912_n.png?resize=240%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10299194_656764117692329_8731598343301846912_n.png?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/10299194_656764117692329_8731598343301846912_n.png?w=483&amp;ssl=1 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diane Crump; Photo courtesy of Ms. Crump<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Ms. Crump chose a tough career that never got easier. She had to prove herself over and over again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">\u201cResilience is what keeps you going,\u201d she said. \u201cNo matter what you do, there are going to be a lot of challenges and obstacles. You\u2019re going to get hurt, at least in my sport. You\u2019re going to feel like you can\u2019t accomplish what you want. So you have to have that belief in yourself that you can do what is in your heart. To me, that\u2019s it. The dream is in your heart. No matter if I was injured, how many broken bones, how much pain, how much resistance. I just never gave up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">But the passion did take a toll on her body. Along the way, she had crushing falls, broken collarbones, fractured legs and splintered ribs. She had three surgeries on each knee over the years and wore her shoulders out galloping horses. \u201cI always got back up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Her resilience was also rooted in her work ethic. \u201cDiane showed up early every morning to gallop horses, despite the weather, despite illness, despite injury,\u201d wrote Mark Shrager, author of the recently released \u201c<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Diane-Crump-Horse-Racing-Pioneers-Saddle\/dp\/1493037951\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diane Crump: A Horse-Racing Pioneer\u2019s Life in the Saddle<\/a><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">That kind of all-encompassing passion is essential to getting back up after setbacks. \u201cThe great thing about having a passion is that it means you are focused on that thing,\u201d Ms. Crump said. \u201cThe fact that every single day I did what I loved \u2014 galloping racehorses, working with horses, feeling in my heart that it was going to happen. That kept me going.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story-ad-3-wrapper\" class=\"css-2ninbb\">\n<div id=\"story-ad-3-slug\" class=\"css-l9onyx\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"after-story-ad-3\"><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Ms. Crump\u2019s passion was sparked when she was a 4-year-old. At a country carnival in Milford, Conn., as her two brothers headed for the bumper cars, she ran to the pony-ride ring with her father behind her. When that first slow walk around the dusty circle ended, she gripped the tiny paint pony\u2019s neck. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t get off the pony,\u201d she said. \u201cEvery time it stopped, I wouldn\u2019t get off, and my father would have to pay them again.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">That passion drove her from a child playing with imaginary horses on the beach where she grew up on Long Island to a high school student working on a thoroughbred breeding farm, galloping horses and learning about the training of them. \u201cI just love them and the way they make you feel,\u201d she said. \u201cGalloping a great racehorse gives you a powerful freedom. I gave all the horses I rode my heart, and they gave me theirs. My love of horses created a world I could never have imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">And even though women were not welcome at the starting gate, that did not deter her. \u201cShe was able to make this happen for herself in a world that really didn\u2019t want her to be part of it,\u201d Mr. Shrager wrote. \u201cShe did it because she insisted that she had to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Winning helps. Success builds resilience. \u201cIf you had no success, you would be thinking \u2018well, why am I doing this?\u2019\u201d Ms. Crump said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Having support of people who believe in you is another crucial component to building resilience and, ultimately, winning, Ms. Crump said. \u201cFrom the time I was a young girl at that carnival,\u201d she said, \u201cmy father and mother, my brothers and sister, and, eventually, my husband, who was a horse trainer, and my daughter and stepchildren wanted me to win. It was a team effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Ms. Crump tries to give that encouragement back to younger generations. \u201cI try every single day to encourage and never discourage,\u201d she said. She still has a fan base \u2014 mostly young girls \u2014 who see her as an inspiration and a role model. Each letter or email she receives \u2014 and there are hundreds each month \u2014 she responds to personally. \u201cI live for that. I want to be able to encourage these kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">Her religious faith was a keystone as well. \u201cI remember when things were really difficult, I would lay there on the grass and look at the stars and talk to God and ask him for help,\u201d she said. \u201cIt has never let me down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">In 1998, she hung up her saddle. Ms. Crump, now 72, started a website offering her&nbsp;<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dianecrump.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">consulting<\/a> and sales services to potential horse buyers that she operates out of her home in Linden, Va. \u201cFor me, life is working,\u201d Ms. Crump said. \u201cWe are here to help other people, to be part of the human network \u2014 a big part of life is you work at a job that you are intended to do. In my case, God gave me gifts \u2014 a love of horses and a fair amount of horsemanship and a love of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-158dogj evys1bk0\">By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\"><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\">Kerry Hannon&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6431\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6431\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?attachment_id=6431\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6431\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6431\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?attachment_id=6431\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IJK_7786.jpg?fit=430%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"430,640\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1479228001&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IJK_7786\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IJK_7786.jpg?fit=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IJK_7786.jpg?fit=430%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-6431 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IJK_7786.jpg?resize=202%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IJK_7786.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IJK_7786.jpg?w=430&amp;ssl=1 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Isabel Kurek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; 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