Motorcycle legend Wayne Gardner sells rural retreat
The motorcycle legend Wayne Gardner has sold his rarely used NSW South Coast retreat.
His hobby cattle farm at Meroo Meadow, near Berry, fetched $2 million plus through Cherylee Elliott and Shane Hilaire at Ray White Berry.
The 57 hectare property had been where Wayne taught his teenage sons Remy and Luca to ride motorbikes when they were four and two. It comes with four bedroom renovated farmhouse.
The family relocated to Spain several years ago to focus on Remy's international riding ambitions. Remy recently scored his second career Moto2 world championship points earlier this month after what was described as "a controlled and sensible ride in a sodden German GP at the Sachsenring."
Wayne, who won a string of grand prix events around the globe and was 500cc world champion in 1987, and his wife Toni bought the property around 13 years ago as a retreat from their hectic lifestyle when he was car racing in Japan.
His young sons had already shown an interest in motorcycles, with little quad bikes for the park near their home in Manly. Gardner was born in 1959 at Wollongong, and becoming the first Australian to win motorcycling's premier class, earned him the nickname The Wollongong Whiz.
There are fertile soils at the foothills farm with permanent water from springs. It has a carrying capacity of around 50 breeders with steel yard facilities and crush.
There is also a huge private lake stocked with bass.
The Ray White Berry agency marketing noted extensive improvements had been made to the picturesque property with new dams, garage and workspace.
It has been sold to Sydney eye surgeon Gary Schiller and professional non-executive director, Diana Eilert.
"It was an opportunity to secure an enviable farm in a great location on the NSW South Coast, just 10 minutes to Berry and Nowra and only 20 minutes to Seven Mile Beach," Cherylee Elliott said.
This article was first published in the Sunday Telegraph.
