Dean Yendall

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Dean Yendall (born 1974) is an Australian jockey based in Victoria.

Yendall began his career in 1991. As of late March 2025, he has ridden 2,786 winners, including six in Group One races.{{cite web | url = https://www.racing.com/jockeys/dean-yendall| title = Dean Yendall| publisher = Racing.com| access-date =28 March 2025}} He is a lightweight jockey, able to ride at 49 kilograms. He has twice won the Group One Empire Rose Stakes, on the three-year-old fillies I Am A Star in 2016 and Shoals in 2017, who each carried 49 kilograms.{{cite web |first=James|last=Tzaferis| url = https://www.racing.com/news/2021-04-09/news-interstate-preview-yendall-chasing-another-lightweight-win-sb| title = Yendall chasing another lightweight win| publisher = Racing.com| access-date =30 May 2021}}

Yendall has won the Victorian country jockeys' premiership several times, and has consistently ridden more than 100 winners a season in recent years, mostly in country races.{{cite web | url = https://www.racingandsports.com/thoroughbred/jockey/dean-yendall/998 | title = Dean Yendall| publisher = Racing and Sports| access-date =30 May 2021}} His wife is fellow jockey Christine Puls.{{cite web | url = https://www.racing.com/jockeys/christine-puls| title = Christine Puls| publisher = Racing.com| access-date =30 May 2021}} In April 2016 they rode a dead heat at a race meeting at Mildura.{{cite web |last=Lamb|first=James| url = https://www.punters.com.au/news/keeping-it-in-the-family_144402/ | title = Husband and wife one day, mother and son the next| publisher = Punters| access-date =30 May 2021}}