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First Woman Horse Racer - College Term Papers

First Woman Horse Racer

In the heart of the Woman’s Rights Movement in the 1960’s, there was one feminist pioneer who was paving new roads, but not in the office or as part of a protest, instead she took it to the track. The fearless woman in question is Diane Crump, the world’s first female jockey, who at the age of 18 had to fight her way through an angry crowd just to get to her first race.

Our legend was born in 1948 in Milford, CT. At the age of 12 her and her family (mother, father, and sister and twin brothers) moved to Florida. Growing up in Oldsmar close to the track she had an amazing open door to the life in the equestrian world. She started at an early age breaking yearlings on the farm. Later she ...

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Diane was surrounded by police escorts. She was ushered through flashing bulbs popping, and jeering crowds of cheers and boos, to a small office which would serve as her locker room. On that day at Hialeah Racetrack, she was about to become the first woman to ever ride in a pari-mutuel race (pari-mutuel refers to a system of betting,) on U.S. soil. Although she didn’t win that race, Crump showed that female jockeys could handle the track and the thoroughbreds just as well as a male jockey.

After that moment in her life she began to get many invitations to ride all over the world from places such as Puerto Rico and Venezuela. During a match race (race between 2 horses) in Puerto Rico, she experienced a situation out of her own comfort zone. Puerto Rico is not known to particularly follow any set rules, meaning anything goes. As her and the male jockey came flying out of the starting gate, he pulled up alongside her horse. He began jerking the reins and doing whatever he could ...

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Added: 10/2/2013 08:35:55 PM
Submitted By: Maelaelai
Category: Sports
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 876
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