FORM N-PX

                     ANNUAL REPORT OF PROXY VOTING RECORD OF
                    REGISTERED MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY

                  Investment Company Act file number 811-22632

                  Prudential Short Duration High Yield Fund, Inc.

               (Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)


     100 Mulberry Street, Gateway Center Three, 4th Floor, Newark, NJ 07102

               (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)


                             Claudia DiGiacomo, Esq.
     100 Mulberry Street, Gateway Center Three, 4th Floor, Newark, NJ 07102

                     (Name and address of agent for service)


        Registrant's telephone number, including area code: 973-802-5032

                        Date of fiscal year-end: May 31

                     Date of reporting period: June 30, 2012





Item 1. Proxy Voting Record

In determining votes against management, any ballot that management did not
make a recommendation is considered to be "FOR" regardless of the vote cast.
Any "Abstain" vote cast is considered as voted, and to be against the
management recommendation.


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ICA File Number: 811-22632
Reporting Period: 07/01/2011 - 06/30/2012
Prudential Short Duration High Yield Fund, Inc.









============== Prudential Short Duration High Yield Fund, Inc. -  ==============
==============                  Sub-Adviser: PIM                  ==============

There is no proxy voting activity for the fund, as the fund did not hold any
votable positions during the reporting period.
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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Investment Company Act of 1940, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.



Prudential Short Duration High Yield Fund, Inc.

By

/s/ Stuart S. Parker (Claudia DiGiacomo)
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    Stuart S. Parker, President


Date:    August 23, 2012


POWER OF ATTORNEY

The undersigned Directors, Trustees and Officers of the Prudential
Investments Mutual Funds, the Target Funds and The Prudential Variable
Contract Accounts 2, 10 and 11 (collectively, the "Funds"), hereby
constitute, appoint and authorize each of, Andrew French, Claudia
DiGiacomo, Deborah A. Docs, Katherine P. Feld, Raymond O'Hara,
Amanda Ryan and Jonathan D. Shain, as true and lawful agents and
attorneys-in-fact, to sign, execute and deliver on his or her behalf
in the appropriate capacities indicated, any Registration Statements
of the Funds on the appropriate forms, any and all amendments thereto
(including pre- and post-effective amendments), and any and all
supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, including
Form N-PX, Forms 3, 4 and 5, as appropriate, to file the same, with
all exhibits thereto, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"SEC") and the securities regulators of appropriate states and
territories, and generally to do all such things in his or her name
and behalf in connection therewith as said attorney-in-fact deems
necessary or appropriate to comply with the provisions of the
Securities Act of 1933, section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, all related
requirements of the SEC and all requirements of appropriate states
and territories.  The undersigned do hereby give to said agents and
attorneys-in-fact full power and authority to act in these premises,
including, but not limited to, the power to appoint a substitute or
substitutes to act hereunder with the same power and authority as
said agents and attorneys-in-fact would have if personally acting.
The undersigned do hereby approve, ratify and confirm all that said
agents and attorneys-in-fact, or any substitute or substitutes, may
do by virtue hereof.


/s/ Kevin J. Bannon
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Kevin J. Bannon

/s/ Stuart S. Parker
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Stuart S. Parker

/s/ Scott E. Benjamin
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Scott E. Benjamin

/s/ Richard A. Redeker
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Richard A. Redeker

/s/ Linda W. Bynoe
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Linda W. Bynoe

/s/Robin B. Smith
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Robin B. Smith

/s/ Michael S. Hyland
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Michael S. Hyland

/s/ Stephen Stoneburn
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Stephen Stoneburn

/s/ Douglas H. McCorkindale
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Douglas H. McCorkindale

/s/ Grace C. Torres
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Grace C. Torres

/s/ Stephen P. Munn
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Stephen P. Munn


Dated: June 6, 2012