A distinguished jockey from a great racing family, Grassick also enjoyed a fine training career from Deer Park Stables close to Dublin’s Phoenix Park.

He is best remembered for training Godswalk to win the Norfolk Stakes at Royal Ascot in 1976. Godswalk ended the season as the top rated two-year-old colt in Ireland and was sold to Robert Sangster. Vincent O’Brien trained the horse to win the 1977 King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot and the horse became one of Coolmore’s first stallions.