Donot Say Anything could thrive in wet thanks to his dam who beat the great Might And Power

LAWRIE Mayfield-Smith isn’t concerned about the predicted rain on the Gold Coast today affecting Donot Say Anything’s chances – after all the horse’s dam beat the great Might And Power in the wet.

Donot Say Anything on his way to winning the Snippets Memorial Maiden Plate (1400m) at the Gold Coast on January 21, 2017. Photo: Jessica Hawkins/Trackside Photography.

LAWRIE Mayfield-Smith isn’t concerned about the predicted rain on the Gold Coast today affecting Donot Say Anything’s chances – after all the horse’s dam beat the great Might And Power in the wet.

Donot Say Anything is going for his third win in six starts when he races in the Class 2 Handicap (1400m) at the Gold Coast with apprentice jockey Matthew McGillivray in the saddle.

Expected rain won’t dampen Mayfield-Smith’s confidence and his three-year-old gelding’s bloodline has a lot to do with it.

Donot Say Anything’s dam What Can I Say beat racing legend Might And Power – who won the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double in 1997 – on a heavy track in the Warwick Stakes (1400m) in Sydney in 1998.

It ended what was Might And Power’s most successful run of four consecutive wins in a year he won the Doomben Cup and Cox Plate.

“(What Can I Say) was a natural in the wet,” Mayfield-Smith said.

“They are tipping rain on the Coast so I wouldn’t be worried.”

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Mayfield-Smith said Donot Say Anything, a $3.70 chance, was in the form to claim a second straight win at the third start of his preparation.

“He has done everything right,” Mayfield-Smith said.

“He is a laid-back sort of bloke, as you will see in his race pattern.

“He gets back and looks like he is under pressure and then he gets rolling.

“He’d have to be very competitive (today). The thing against him is he is a three-year-old up against the older horses but I thought this was a better race for him.”

Mayfield-Smith has been patient with Donot Say Anything early in his career.

The gelding was tipped out after finishing 10th in his first run at Doomben last August and returned in January this year for a two-race preparation that began with an eighth and finished with a win at the Gold Coast.

What Can I Say, ridden by Chris Munce, wins the Warwick Stakes on a heavy track at Warwick Farm in 1998. That’s turf great Might And Power on the right.

Donot Say Anything has similar form in his third and current preparation, recording a ninth at Eagle Farm before winning at the Sunshine Coast last month.

Mayfield-Smith said the slow developer was now ready to go to a third race.

“He is a small horse but I just wanted to give him time,” Mayfield-Smith said.

“I’ll probably try to get him up to a mile or further this prep.

“I just want to test him out this time now that he is hardened and see how far he can go distance-wise.”