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Stratum; Lonhro; Hinchinbrook; US Ranger; Magnus; Snippetson.

• STRATUM colt Attention earned a Group One start with his promising G3 win in the TL Baillieu Handicap at Rosehill on Saturday.

Co-trainer Peter Snowden said Attention would be given his chance to add another two-year-old G1I to the stable’s mantle in next Saturday’s $1 million ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Randwick.

Attention added to the great season being enjoyed by the James Harron Bloodstock two-year-old team under the care of Peter and Paul Snowden.

The Snowdens also prepare Golden Slipper Stakes and Magic Millions Classic winner Capitalist and Black Opal Stakes winner for Harron and his partners. Another of the Harron youngsters Detective will join Attention in the Sires Produice Stakes at Randwick.

Attention (Stratum x Flamboyance by Snowland) was a $620,000 yearling purchase by Harron and was the most expensive yearling by Stratum sold at auction.

He is a full brother to G2 placed filly Flamboyant Lass and is the second winner for Flamboyance, a half-sister to the G3 Pasikatera, the dam of stakes-winner Planet Voyage.

The family include G1 winner Tempest Morn and this season’s G2 winning juvenile Good Standing.

Attention is the 29th stakes-winner by Golden Slipper winner Stratum.

• EXCITING Exciting Lonhro colt Old North became the 60th stakes winner for his champion sire when he claimed the G2 Tulloch Stakes at Rosehill to earn a shot at next Saturday’s $2 million ATC Australian Derby.

Bred by Darley, Old North is the second foal out of the stakes-winning Elusive Quality mare Bernicia, a half-sister to Hong Kong champion Vengeance Of Rain and G1 Australian Oaks winner Dizelle.

Among Lonhro’s 60 career stakes winners are seven G1 winners including Exosphere, as well as Denman, Benfica and Pierro.

• STYLISH Hinchinbrook filly Najmaat is bound for Sydney after opening her wining account at Caulfield on Saturday.

The $220,000 yearling purchase for Shadwell Australia from the Yarraman Park draft is prepared by David Hayes and Tom Dabernig and will join their team at the Randwick carnival.

Najmaat had raced once previously for a fourth in January when she pulled up with a minor problem.

Najmaat is the second winner from Advantage Receiver, a half-sister by Giant’s Causeway to G3 winner Oakleigh Girl.

Her second dam was the G1 Oakleigh Plate winner Miss Kournikova.

• FORMER Danzing shuttle stallion US Ranger sired his fourth stakes winner when the 4YO mare Scratchy Lass won the Listed Oakbank Stakes on Saturday.

Scratchy Lass is from the Keltrice mare Seven Year Itch. US Ranger was previously based at WinStar Farm in Kentucky but now stands in California.

Another Danzig sire, the now deceased Fath, produced his third stakes winner on Saturday when his 3YO All Gee won the Listed Raconteur Stakes at Ascot in Perth.

Fath died in 2012 after serving four seasons at stud.

• CLASSY Magnus sprinter Malaguerra recordfed his fourth successive win for Lee and Anthony Freedman when he won the G3 Star Kingdom Stakes at Rosehill at his first Sydney start on Saturday.

Magnus had won the Listed Bob Hoysted Handicap at Flemington at his previous start and his long range target is the G1 Stradbroke Handicap in Brisbane in June.

Malaguerra’s form stood up on Saturday as another Magnus product Miss Promiscuity won at Caulfield after finishing fourth in his Flemington race.

Miss Promiscuity will now be aimed at the G1 Sportingbet Classic at Morphettville on May 7.

• SNIPPETSON’s tally of stakes-winner moved into double figures when Lady Sniper landed the Listed Gosford Guineas on March 24.

A $20,000 yearling purchase by Boomer Bloodstock, the Bjorn Baker-trained filly was a brilliant winner of the $250,000 Inglis Sprint in December and has now won four of her 11 starts.

Lady Sniper was originally purchased as a weanling for just $1500 by Baddock Bloodstock and was later pinhooked through the draft of Widden Stud at the 2014 Sydney Classic Sale.

She is one of 10 stakes-winners for Snippetson, who now stands in Western Australia.

Lasy Sniper’s dam Lady Titus is a half-sister to stakes-winners Easy Landing and Misty Dawn.

Snippetson is enjoyuing a good run of carnival success as his daughter Vergara won the G3 Epona Stakes at Rosehill on March 19.

Snippetson has sired the winners of over $2.21 million this season and is second on the WA sires table behind Blackfriars.