Speak Easy has Thurles option Speak Easy could take a drop in class in the Grade Three Michael Purcell Memorial Novice Hurdle at Thurles on Thursday. Joseph O'Brien's charge was pitched into top-level company on only his second racecourse outing at Naas last month and was far from disgraced when finishing fifth behind Next Destination. The Beneficial gelding made a big impression on his racecourse bow when scoring at Navan, but O'Brien feels it may have been asking too much to go straight for a Grade One after that win. He said: "Nothing is confirmed yet but there is a chance he would run there (Thurles). He's in good form. "We pitched him into the deep end in a Grade One the last day and probably, in hindsight, it wasn't the right thing to do. "He seems well and there is a chance he might run at Thurles."
