Thoroughbred owner Tony Huang lists pedigree Kirribilli apartment that celebrates the Magic of Sydney

{yoogallery src=[images/stories/november7kirribilli]}

Thoroughbred horse owner Tony Huang has listed his Greencliffe, Kirribilli, apartment, some 16 years after being introduced to the waterfront block by the horse trainer Gai Waterhouse.

With iconic views of the Opera House, it’s positioned on the Kirribilli foreshore comprising 262 square metres with a spacious free-flowing design. The living, dining and casual sitting/breakfast room open to the entertaining terrace.

It has level entry from Kirribilli Avenue and lift access to its double garaging.

All three bedrooms have en suites.

Greencliffe, a tightly held building at the Harbour Bridge end of Kirribilli Avenue, comes with common garden areas, a resort style indoor pool, gym and sauna.

Ben Stewart of CBRE is seeking offers over $5.5 million for the fifth-floor apartment with offers due by November 24.

Huang, who raced Magic of Sydney, paid $2.3 million off the plan in 1995. At the time, Huang, formerly an importer-exporter from Hong Kong, had about 25 horses with Waterhouse.

The first horse he co-owned in Australia was All Our Mob, who was sold to Huang and Waterhouse's late father, Tommy Smith, after his Stradbroke Handicap win in 1994.

The Waterhouse family still maintain ownership within the complex. The Waterhouse waterfront links stretch back to the First Fleet, with their forefathers operating the Milsons Point-to-Hornsby bus, the Kirribilli-to-Circular Quay ferry, then the nearby Imperial Hotel. In 1994 the racing family netted about $8.2 million after the sale of two properties, Craiglea and Greencliffe. The family simultaneously secured four of the 39 apartments constructed by Dr Stanley Quek’s Greencliffe Developments.

RP Data doesn’t show a sale on the block since 2007, when $8.25 million was paid for a 349-square-metre eighth-floor penthouse.