Lloyd Williams seeking $20 million for Macedon Lodge racehorse facility
The Melbourne Cup winning horse owner, Lloyd Williams has put Macedon Lodge, his champion horse facility at Mt Macedon on the market, given the pending move of the enterprise to Melbourne's Mornington Peninsula.
The marketing of the lavish Mt Macedon horse training facility will be aimed at overseas buyers, including Qatari and Dubai sheiks.
Williams owns a 1,200 acres outside of Mornington with plans to transition the shift over the next 18 months. Williams has five properties on the peninsula with his son Nick saying the new racing complex will be headquartered at a 120 hectare property in Boneo Road, Cape Schanck.
Williams bought Macedon Lodge from Kurt Stern in 2007 for $5.1 million then spending at least that amount again on refurbishments. It had previously sold at $8.5 million in 2004. Stern leased it as the private training complex for John Symons, who moved to Seymour.
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Macedon Lodge has training tracks, a horse pool, water walker along with some 75 stables. Over the years Williams has raced horses including Mahogany, What a Nuisance, Just a Dash, Reset, Efficient, Zipping, Gallic, Perlin, County and Plush.
Since being developed into Australia’s premier private training establishment in the early 2000s, Macedon Lodge has proved itself to be a very successful home to top quality horses with extremely fertile soil and environmental conditions.
The bloodstock company William Inglis and Sons has the listing of the property which is owned by Hudson Conway Racing, the private thoroughbred racing and breeding operation of Lloyd Williams, one of Australia’s largest and most successful owners for over four decades.
Inglis director Peter Heagney said there were few properties in the league of Macedon Lodge.
''Macedon Lodge is a $20 million-plus investment and this will be similar if not more,'' Nick Williams told the racing press.
