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Hinchinbrook mare Spright got the monkey off her back with her deserving first Group One win in the TAB Classic at Morphettville on Saturday.

The 5YO Spright (Hinchinbrook x Dashoff by Dash For Cash) became the fourth G1 winner for her late sire who died last July after a paddock accident.

He is also the sire of Press Statement, Seabrook and the Hong Kong Star Beat The Clock and also has left 18 black type winners among 209 winners from 321 runners.

Bred by Donnybrook Thoroughbreds, Spright had previously recorded two G1 placings this season in the Moir Stakes and William Reid Stakes.

Her Adelaide win came less than 24 hours after her dam Dashoff in foal to I Am Invincible was sold for $480,000 at the Chairman’s Sale in Sydney where she was purchased by agent Mark Pilkington.

Spright was first sold for $12,000 as a weanling at the 2014 Australian Broodmare and Weanling Sale where she was secured by Gary Mudgway.

Mudgway later sold the filly at the Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale under the Grange Thoroughbreds banner where she realised $100,000 to clients of Hawkesbury trainer Gary Frazer.

Spright, the third foal out of Dashoff, has since earned her connections $1,268,095 prize-money from six wins and nine placings in 29 starts.

She will now attempt to join Black Caviar and Platelet as mares to win the the Sangster Classic-Goodwood sprint double at Morphettville.

Black Caviar won both races in 2012, a feat emulated by Platelet a year later.

Dashoff is also the dam of two other winners including the G3-placed Mine Two (I Am Invincible).

Frazer last year paid $40,000 for Spright’s half-sister by Arlington while Dashoff has a yearling by the same sire.

There are eight final crop weanlings by Hinchinbrook catalogued at this month’s Magic Millions Gold Coast National Weanling Sale.