At 17 years old, Cheryl White became the first Black woman registered as a jockey in 1971. Her story is the focus of a middle grade novel, The Jockey and Her Horse, by brother Raymond White and New ...

Jockey Jamie Kah has responded after a pair of images featuring the superstar and a plate with an unknown white powder circulated on social media. Kah has been sidelined since a horror fall at ...

Here in Lexington, Kentucky, Horse Capital of the World, we’ve had about a decade of unearthed information about Black contributions to the Thoroughbred industry, from the first winning jockeys of the ...

Some trailblazers hit the spotlight, while others stay hidden in the shadows. Up until recently, Cheryl White was one of the latter. White, who died in 2019, was the first Black female jockey in ...