An earth-moving contractor by trade, Brassey's first national success was the 1980 New Zealand Open Pairs. He went on to win eight
New Zealand National Bowls Championships titles in the pairs (1982) and the fours (1981, 1982, 1990, 1995, 2002, 2003 & 2012/13) when bowling for the Okahu Bay, Avondale and Cabramatta Bowls Clubs respectively. Brassey has competed at five World Bowls Championships, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 & 2000; winning gold in 1988 (pairs, with
Peter Belliss), and in 2000 he won the gold medal with
Andrew Curtain and Peter Belliss in the
men's triples at the
2000 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in
Johannesburg. He has competed at six
Commonwealth Games:
1982,
1990,
1994,
1998,
2002 and
2006. In 1990, Brassey was awarded the
New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal. In the
2001 New Year Honours, he was appointed a
Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to bowls. He won eight medals at the
Asia Pacific Bowls Championships including three gold medals. In 2013, Brassey was an inaugural inductee into the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame. ==References==