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getting close to Cup week with 2 Big days of action to make the country Great Again. and for some Aussies to have a bit of a holiday. Some great horses have strutted their stuff in both countries . Here's a Tuesday chance too. Guess who ? -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Chasing the Crown's effectiveness on the Churchill Downs turf could tip the scales in his favor when he battles graded stakes winners Wolfie's Dynaghost, Mercante, Lagynos, Encino, and other foes in the $300,000 River City Stakes (G3T) Nov. 8. View the full article -
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On February 7, 1969, Diane Crump became the first woman to ride in a parimutuel race, at Hialeah Park. Her participation in the race was so controversial at the time that she required a police escort to get her through the crowd of hostile spectators to the paddock. She was ninth of 12 in the race, and returned to cheers. It took Crump two weeks to ride her first winner, and the following year, she went on to become the first woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby. Crump is the guest on the first episode of season two of the Boundless Podcast, hosted by jockey and veterinarian Ferrin Peterson. Peterson starts the show out noting to Crump that early on, being a female jockey wasn't even a job, asking Crump what her goal was. “Early on,” says Crump, “all I wanted to do was be around horses. I wanted to ride, ride, ride, even if it was just to exercise them. I just had to be around them, and it wasn't until I learned a little bit more and got familiar with everything that I knew I wanted to be a jockey.” Crump said that in those early days in the mid-1960s, she was just about the only female on the backstretch. “When I first came around the track, I was the only woman doing anything,” she said. “I think there was one pony girl. and that was it–not even grooms or hotwalkers. I was it and it was a few years before you started seeing more girls show up.” Crump said getting her license to exercise horses was fairly easy, due to some connections, even though it was illegal for her to be on the backstretch at the age of 14. She tells the story of how Kathy Kusner sued the Maryland Racing Commisison and got her license first, but Kusner had a show-jumping competition at ride at Madison Square Garden, where she broke her leg and was out for six months. Kusner and Penny Ann Early were both galloping horses at Churchill Downs. Early got a mount at Churchill, but the male jockeys boycotted her, refusing to ride in the race. Crump went to Florida, went to court and got a license. Barbara Jo Rubin was riding as an exercise rider, and also got her license, and was named on a mount before Crump. Again, the male riders again boycotted the race. The Hialeah stewards said they wouldn't tolerate that, and that any jockey who boycotted a race so as not to allow women to ride would be suspended for the entirety of the meet. “Nobody wanted a fine, or to stop riding, so I was the third one to get named, and with that warning, the race went off without a hitch,” she said. Peterson dedicated the episode to Janet Mendez, one of the earliest exercise riders who galloped and breezed horses in the Midlantic and Florida, where she and her husband, Rene Mendez, trained horses for over 40 years. To listen to the episode on Spotify, click here. To listen on Apple Podcasts, click here. The post Season 2 of Boundless Podcast Kicks off With Diane Crump appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
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