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By Regina Varolli
WeNews correspondent
Legendary female jockey Julie Krone is the subject of a movie now in the making called "Freak." That spurs Regina Varolli to look back over the 40 years since jockey Diane Crump became the first woman to race professionally in the "Sport of Kings."
(WOMENSENEWS)--Movie director Katherine Brooks ("Loving Annabelle," 2006, and "Waking Madison," 2009) is making a film about the life of legendary female jockey Julie Krone.
"She doesn't think of herself as a woman, she identifies herself as a jockey," Brooks said in a recent interview. "This, despite the fact that at the beginning of her career she was heckled by crowds….They used to shout at her to 'go home and make babies'."
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