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Group One winner Beaded has been retired following her Doomben Ten Thousand failure in Brisbane last Saturday.

Beaded, a daughter of former champion Lonhro, will go to Darley Stud to be mated with shuttle sire Street Cry this spring.

She retires with the outstanding record of 10 wins and 13 placings from 27 starts for prizemoney of $1,618,000 and was acclaimed by her trainer Peter Snowden as his favourite mare.

Beaded got her deserved G1 win in last year's Doomben Ten Thousand and was also placed in

another five G1 races including the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington behind Black Caviar.

"She owes us nothing and deserves to go stud," Snowden said.

"She was as big as an ant but fought well above her weight and gave everything in all of her races.”

She goes to stud as Lonhro's second highest stakes earner behind his unbeaten two-year-old Pierro and will be a valuable addition to the Darley broodmare bans as she is half-sister to the G1 performer Rarefied and her dam is a half sister to G1 winner Undue.

Beaded's retirement coincides with Lonhro causing a ripple in UK racing by siring his first winner in England.

His former Australian stakes winner Dysphonia backed up her third at her UK debut with victory at Leicester on Monday.

Formerly trained by Snowden, Dysphonia was transferred to Godolphin trainer Saeed bin Suroor with several other stable stars for a northern hemisphere campaign early this year. She raced twice in Dubai before she was sent to England.

Lonhro has just completed his first northern hemisphere shuttle season at Darley's American stud in Kentucky.

Dysphonia was seven races in Australia and was G1 placed in the Myer Classic at Flemington last spring.