Diane Crump, the pioneering Thoroughbred jockey whose riding breakthroughs paved the way for generations of female riders, died Jan. 1 at a hospital in Winchester, Virginia. She was 77. For the past few months, she had been battling an aggressive brain cancer known as glioblastoma. Crump, involved with horses from her childhood until the last […]
The Thoroughbred Racing Initiative has taken its first major step toward determining the best way to preserve and strengthen Florida’s thoroughbred racing and breeding industry as it enters its second year of its mission to protect live horse racing, starting in Florida. The broad industry coalition formed in February has commissioned a feasibility study as […]