Dean Yendall

Dean Yendall, born in 1974, is an Australian jockey based in Victoria. He was born in Melbourne, grew up in Westmeadows and moved to the country at fourteen, beginning his riding career in 1991. A lightweight rider able to ride at 49 kilograms, he twice won the Group One Empire Rose Stakes, on I Am A Star in 2016 and Shoals in 2017. He has regularly ridden more than 100 winners a season, mostly in country races, and won the Neville Wilson Medal for the leading Victorian country jockey in seven successive seasons from 2011 to 2017. He has ridden 2,871 winners, six of them in Group One races, and lives in Horsham with his wife, fellow jockey Christine Puls.