Dean Yendall will continue his comeback from injury when he rides sprinter Eight Bills in trackwork at Flemington on Tuesday morning.Yendall, who has won four races from five rides aboard Eight Bills, spent nine weeks on the sidelines after suffering two broken wrists and a broken collarbone in a race fall at Launceston on February 14.Yendall had landed the biggest win of his career prizemoney-wise when promising Tasmanian two-year-old Strike The Tiger, prepared by Michael Trinder, won the $150,

Dean Yendall will continue his comeback from injury when he rides sprinter Eight Bills in trackwork at Flemington on Tuesday morning.

Yendall, who has won four races from five rides aboard Eight Bills, spent nine weeks on the sidelines after suffering two broken wrists and a broken collarbone in a race fall at Launceston on February 14.

Yendall had landed the biggest win of his career prizemoney-wise when promising Tasmanian two-year-old Strike The Tiger, prepared by Michael Trinder, won the $150,000 Gold Sovereign Stakes (1200m).

However the fall occurred in the following race when Strike The Tiger's stablemate Regal Chivas suffered a massive haemorrhage in the home straight and collapsed.

The Gary Portelli-trained Eight Bills will kick off a short late autumn preparation aimed at the Listed $100,000 Wangoom Hcp (1200m) at Warrnambool on May 4 when he resumes in Saturday's Tontonan Hcp (1000m) at Sandown.

Troy Portelli, assistant trainer for his brother Gary, said Mark Zahra was booked to ride Eight Bills for the Tontonan but Yendall would be back on for the Wangoom.

"Dean is his (Eight Bills) jockey and he is coming out to trackwork tomorrow (Tuesday) morning," Portelli said.

"He's back riding (trackwork) for the past week so by the time the Wangoom comes around he should be ready to rock and roll."

Portelli said Eight Bills, a four-year-old by Octagonal, would have a light preparation before returning for a spring campaign.

"He's having only two starts, this race on Saturday and the Wangoom. It's an ambition of the owner to win the Wangoom and he's got a horse good enough to do it," he said.

Owner Bill Gibbons bred Eight Bills out of his smart Rory's Jester mare Typhoon Billie who won seven of her 13 starts including the 2001 Group Three Mannerism Stakes (1400m) and the Listed Hyderabad Racing Club Stakes (1200m), both at Caulfield.

Eight Bills has been beaten only once in six starts and is chasing his fourth successive city win after victories at Moonee Valley (twice) and at Caulfield.

Four of his wins have been at 1000 metres with one at 1206 at Sale at his second start, after which he suffered his only defeat when a close-up third to Syndrome over 1300m in a Bendigo Class 2 Hcp last October.

"I reckon he just went too long between runs and was stepping up in distance," Portelli said.

Amongst the 24 entries for the Tontonan is last year's Wangoom winner Arch Symbol and runner-up Bocuse.