William Muir & Chris Grassick

It would be fair to say that William Muir made a fairly insupicious start to his training career when, on March 28, 1991, Creefleur, who was weakening at the time, fell at the final flight in a novices’ selling hurdle at Taunton. However, two years later, Muir moved to his current base, Linkslade, in Lambourn, near Hungerford, Berkshire and, a little over three decades later, has well in excess of 700 winners to his name.

Muir trained in his own name unti January 2021, chalking up a total of eight Group race victories, including both the Group 2 King Edward VII Stakes at Royal Ascot and the Group 2 Great Voltigeur Stakes at York with stable star in 2020. At that stage, he was joined on the licence at Linkslade by Chris Grassick who, after gaining valuable work experience in Australia, Japan, Ireland and Saudi Arabia, had most recently spent three years as assistant trainer to Archie Watson in nearby Upper Lambourn.

Since joining forces, Muir and Grassick have saddled Pyledriver to four more high-profile successes, notably including the Group 1 Coronation Cup at Epsom in 2021 and the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot in 2022. Obviously, it is still early days for their joint licence arrangement, but, in three seasons so far, they have saddled 34, 28 and 21 winners. The 2024 season has started well, too, with five winners from 23 runners, at an impressive 22% strike rate, at the time of writing.

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