She began her career in 1971, when she was 17. Women were not allowed to be jockeys until 1969.
White’s first victory came in September of that year at Waterford Park in West Virginia, which is now known as Mountaineer Park. Her groundbreaking role in racing led to national publicity. White appeared on the cover of Jet Magazine in the summer of 1971._____
White rode briefly in California in 1974, and moved to the state the following year where she excelled on the Northern California fair circuit, particularly aboard Appaloosas through the 1970s and 1980s. White retired in 1992, and later appeared in a charity race for retired female riders at Pimlico on four occasions earlier this decade.
White was inducted into the Appaloosa Hall of Fame for her success with the breed in 2011.
Another obit: Former French president Jacques Chirac, 86, has died. He was president from 1995 to 1997.
As president, he led a divided nation, presiding over far left and far right factions of the government. Chirac is remembered for his opposition of the U.S. war in Iraq and for championing the formation of the European Union. In 2000, as he was serving his first term as president, he introduced a referendum reducing the French president’s term from seven years to five. It was successful, and with his second term, Chirac became the first French president to serve a five-year term. He was the first French leader to acknowledge that the French were in part responsible for the deportation of 75,000 French Jews to Nazi concentration camps during World War II — previous French leaders had placed the blame for this solely on the Nazis who occupied France._____
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