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Impressive three-year-old Encryption is the latest winner for one of Godolphin’s most successful Australian families.

Last season’s G3 Black Opal Stakes winner found his best form again to add the G2 Danehill Stakes to his record at Flemington last Saturday.

Encryption is a homebred for Sheikh Mohammed by Lonhro from Guelph, a four-time G1 winner by Exceed And Excel in the Darley colours before she went to stud.

Godolphin has also enjoyed success with Guelph’s three-quarter stakes placed brother Coruscate, a recent winner of two Sydney races, and her Shamardal half-brother Ghibellines, winner of the G2 Todman Stakes.

Encryption is the first foal from Guelph, who won seven races including the Thousand Guineas, Flight Stakes, Champagne Stakes and the ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes.

Guelph is a daughter of Camarilla, the Elusive Quality filly who also won the G1 ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes for her owner-breeders Jack and Bob Ingham prior to the purchase of their bloodstock interests by Sheikh Mohammed.

Camarilla is a sister to Induna, a Listed Geelong Classic winner and second in the G1 Victoria Derby, and blood sister to Sheikh Mohammed’s Golden Slipper winner and sire Sepoy.

Guelph’s third dam Camarena (Danehill) won the G1 Queensland Derby.

Encryption has now had 10 starts for two wins and three placings, earning $425,500.

Guelph has a two-year-old sister to Encryption named Emanate. She also has a yearling colt by Lonhro and in foal to Medaglia d’Oro.

Encryption is one of 76 stakes winner by Darley’s champion sire Lonhro.

• Godolphin colt Aramayo, a son of former shuttle sire Poet’s Voice, relished the return to a firm surface when he won the G3 Spring Stakes at Newcastle on September 14.

He is the 15th individual stakes winner for Poet’s Voice, a son of Dubawi who died this year from a heart attack at the age of 11.

Poet’s Voice, who sired another winner Neruda on the Newcastle program, shuttled to Australia between 2012 and 2016 and covered an average of 90 mares per season.

Aramayo is out of the unraced mare Peruvian (Diktat), a half-sister to four stakes winners all sired by Sadler’s Wells.

Peruvian has produced six winners from eight foals to date with Aramayo her first stakes winner.

Peruvian’s siblings include the triple G1 winner and leading sire In The Wings, French G2 winners Morozov and Hunting Hawk and G3 winner Hawker’s News.

Aramayo’s granddam is High Hawk, an Italian G1 winner by Shirley Heights.

• Another Darley sire Denman, also by Lonhro, sired his tenth stakes winner when Ragged Rascal won the Listed Heritage Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

Trained by Paul Perry, Ragged Rascal (Denman x M’Lady Pedrille by Al Maher) provided his sire with his tenth stakes winner.