It’s take two for an emerging three-year-old at Thursday’s Kembla Grange meeting, 11 weeks after a somewhat under-the-radar debut.

Cool Drinks, a gelding by Kiwi sire Cool Aza Beel in the Randwick stable of John O’Shea and Tom Charlton, was due to return at last Thursday’s Hawkesbury meeting before being one of many scratchings from a Super Maiden over 1300m.

Wary of a surface that day bordering on heavy, Cool Drinks was put back on ice for a further week, and now tackles a very winnable maiden handicap over the same distance at Kembla.

And connections got their wish of a much firmer surface, with the gelding emerging as one of the best value “plays” across an open meeting.

Cool Drinks caught the eye late when having his first run in a two-year-old maiden at Wyong on Soft 7 ground a mo

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