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. 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.
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. His wife is fellow jockey Christine Puls. In April 2016 they rode a dead heat at a race meeting at Mildura.
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