Dean Yendall
Dean Yendall (born 1974) is an Australian jockey based in Victoria.
Yendall began his career in 1991. As of mid-September 2024, he has ridden 2,758 winners, including six in Group One races.[1] 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.[2]
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.[3] His wife is fellow jockey Christine Puls.[4] In April 2016 they rode a dead heat at a race meeting at Mildura.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dean Yendall". Racing.com. Retrieved 15 September 2024.
- ^ Tzaferis, James. "Yendall chasing another lightweight win". Racing.com. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
- ^ "Dean Yendall". Racing and Sports. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
- ^ "Christine Puls". Racing.com. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
- ^ Lamb, James. "Husband and wife one day, mother and son the next". Punters. Retrieved 30 May 2021.