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Trainer Terry Croft acknowledges half-brothers Royal Corporal and Royal Bombadier are a different style of horse but hope they can leave Kembla Grange with the same result on Saturday afternoon.

Croft's two runners on the Kembla program hail from the same family through their mother Royal Hootenanny with Royal Corporal the youngest of the racing duo.

Croft also trains Royal Bombadier's full brother Royal Commodore.

Royal Corporal is by Graff and is at the beginning of his three-year-old season with two starts under his belt.

Royal Bombadier runs for Terry Croft at Kembla on Saturday (Pic: Bradley Photos).

The bay gelding steps up in trip in The Pink Fight Midway 3YO Maiden Handicap (1400m).

“His brother Royal Bombadier has won over 900m and is placed up to 1200m but he is a different sort of horse to him and Royal Commodore,” Croft said.

“He is a different build of horse and is a bit more relaxed than them so I think he will get over further than them.

“I think he will relish the 1400m and even a mile.”

Croft also nominated Royal Corporal for a 1200m maiden on the same Kembla card but elected to stretch him out over more ground.

It comes after he was only getting warm late last start at Randwick Kensington in a 1150m affair, coming from a clear last in the run to finish on the placegetters heels.

“It is going to take him a bit of racing to switch on properly,” Croft said.

“I expect him to run well though. It looks like a nice race for him that we’ve picked out.

“I had him nominated for two races but thought the 1400m would suit him better than the 1200m.

“There were massive noms in the other race and he mightn’t have got a run anyway.”

Chad Lever pilots Royal Corporal, which is rated a $4.20 chance.

Royal Bombadier ($4.20 favourite) gets his chance to end a run of near misses in the Elders Real Estate Wollongong Class 1 (1200m).

The son of Sooboog only has one win to his name in 23 starts but has placed on 10 occasions.

He has finished runner up at his past two Gosford and Forbes and will attempt to go one better with apprentice Mollie Fitzgerald in the saddle.

“He has had a few starts now and has only won one race but over $100,000 in prizemoney,” Croft said.

“He is still a Class 1 horse. He tries hard.”

All the fields, form and replays for Saturday’s Kembla Grange meeting