Beaded Retired

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   Clinton Payne
29/05/2012
Group I winning pocket rocket retiredBeaded, one of Australia’s most genuine racehorses has been retired after a below par performance in last Saturday’s Group I Doomben 10000.
The daughter of Lonhro leaves the racetrack with 10 wins and 13 placings from 27 starts with career earnings of more than $1.6 million.
A mark of Beaded’s consistently is the fact that three of her four unplaced runs have come in her last five starts when she raced below her best.
The six-year-old won the 2011 Doomben 10000 and also placed at the elite level on five other occasions including in last year’s Newmarket Handicap behind Black Caviar.
She also carried 54kg when going down narrowly behind Sincero in last year’s Stradbroke Handicap.
"She owes us nothing and deserves to go stud,” trainer Peter Snowden said. 
"She’s as big as an ant, but fought well above her weight and gave everything in all of her races.”
Beaded will visit Darley’s Street Cry later this year when she makes her first trip to the breeding barn.