Jockey Dean Holland Wife: Was Dean Holland Married?

Jockey Dean Holland was an award-winning jockey from Australia. Dean Holland was married to his wife Lucy. They had four children together.

Dean Holland died after a sickening race fall in country Victoria, in a tragedy that stunned the racing world on Monday, April 24 2023.

He was riding Tony McEvoy’s gelding Headingley in the first race at Donald, 280 kilometres north-west of Melbourne when he was involved in a sickening fall.

When the three-year-old gelding moved sharply to the inside rail before falling as the field turned for home at the top of the straight, Holland was thrown to the turf.

Jockey Dean Holland was treated on the flight before being airlifted to a Melbourne hospital in critical condition. Just after 4 p.m., Victoria Police confirmed his death.

Dean Holland began his professional riding career in South Australia before moving to Victoria in 2005. His most recent victory came in the third week of April 2023, at Ararat.

Holland won the Group 1 Newmarket Handicap on In Secret for the Godolphin owners in March 2023, the biggest win of his career.

He had 1080 career victories and more than $32 million in prize money for connections. He won the Adelaide Cup twice, in 2015 and 2019, and the Geelong Cup in 2021 aboard Tralee Rose.