[1] During World War II, his parents moved the family to south Georgia for a time to keep his sister away from the large number of servicemen in Miami.
In 1954 Groover graduated from high school and moved to Shelbyville, Tennessee, to work for horse trainer Vic Thompson.
[2] Groover and the horse's owner, Randall Rollins, took him to several equine veterinarians and put Ace's Sensation on swimming therapy to build his muscles without strain.
During the Preliminary Stallion class, Ace's Sensation stumbled and Groover feared the horse had been reinjured.
Besides Ace's Sensation, Groover had several other notable horses, including the mare Ebony's Darling Lady, who won the Three-Year-Old World Championship.