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I’ve covered several Melbourne Cup days as a journalist. The trick was to file the story before 3pm and find a plum position for the great race. I knew just the spot – in the press room in the old stand – where I could hang out the window (beside the pie warmer) and hear the roar of the crowd roll towards me as the Cup field tore down the straight. I swear I could feel the stand shake like the feathery fascinators worn by the girls giddy on champagne. Cup runners won’t charge home this year to the same racket from 100,000 fans, but we hope this edition provides some excitement to the build-up. ●

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Challenging Cup tradition COVER STORY Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Danny O’Brien,

based at Barwon Heads, isn’t afraid to do things differently.

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ight from the start, even as far back at St Augustine’s Primary up at Kyabram, horse trainer Danny O’Brien never accepted that there was only one rule, only one way.

O’Brien has never been the type to toe the line without throwing in a protest.

After attending St Augustine’s up at “Ky’’, where his father Peter was a GP who hobbied in horse breeding and training, carting slow horses to bush tracks like Leeton, O’Brien boarded at Xavier and later gained an economics/law degree at Monash.

He’d have been the type of student weary teachers would have described as disruptive.

“I guess I’ve always been one to ask questions and not necessarily believe in the answers,’’ O’Brien says with a chuckle. “And I never really got used to being bossed around.”

When Vow And Declare scraped home against a swarm of foreign runners in last year’s Melbourne Cup, the locals fluked one back against the superpowers. Vow And Declare was a locally-bred stayer; a Melbourne Cup anomaly. Australian horses are bred for speed.

Few Australian trainers were bothering with stayers. O’Brien, though, had a hankering for them and refused to concede our most famous race to outsiders with horses with centuries of staying bloodlines.

To win the Melbourne Cup, 50-year-old O’Brien had risen from the chaos of a three-year “drug” saga. O’Brien was ultimately found innocent of

Vow And Declare’s campaign had been anything but textbook. For more than 150 years there had been a basic template to training horses in Australia; most were trained on tight city sand and grass tracks; fast work Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and done quickly because the gates would be locked at 9am.

Horses either sprinted or showed stamina via a predictable progression of races – 1200 metres, 1400 metres, 1600 metres and beyond – and spent six weeks in cold winter paddocks.

Vow And Declare had won the Cup off a threerun spring campaign.

There was no script for this. The Europeans would have tried it – and O’Brien studied a lot from them in learning stints in Europe – but local stayers had five or six runs leading into the Cup marathon.

O’Brien had juggled his uni degree with periods working for a handful of trainers, including Bart Cummings, who believed a Cup horse had to accumulate 10 kilometres of racing to be fit enough to win the race.

Cummings won 12 Melbourne Cups but to O’Brien, Bart’s way was a guide, not a religion.

O’Brien won the South Australian Derby in May this year with a horse bred in the northern hemisphere and effectively six months “younger’’ than his rivals.

On a light, unorthodox campaign hindered by a barrier mishap and a lost lead-up run, Russian Camelot came from last, and won like a champion.

Many of his horses race sparingly. He trains, not races, them to fitness. He bought a farm near Barwon Heads a few years ago that allows him to mimic the routines of horses trained in similar open environments overseas.

When the tide is out at Thirteenth Beach, O’Brien horses can gallop for kilometres and kilometres. He uses whiz-bang technology; heart scores, lactic recovery, GPS trackers. Stride length is calculated and entered into data bases. It’s “not rocket science’’, as he says, but it is horse science.

“Eighty per cent of it is absolutely basic. Horses and humans have had an intimate relationship for thousands of years. We are both at our best when we’re happy. We do whatever we can to make sure the horses are fit, healthy and happy and the rest takes care of itself,’’ he says.

O’Brien said racing’s extraordinary horse “wastage’’, where so many blue-bloods had not survived the rigours of city training around those tight little tracks, had made him determined to preserve and maximise his horses; to race them when they’re ready, not to a calendar O’Brien believes is a dinosaur. O’Brien does not detest tradition but it mostly annoys him.

Like some others, O’Brien believes the racing season should exist from September until May, taking advantage of reliable weather. In short, tradition turned upside down.

He supported the Melbourne Racing Club’s radical proposal to move the Caulfield Cup to late

“Horses and humans have had an intimate relationship for thousands of years.

We are both at our best when we’re happy.” administering cobalt to his horses and from the beginning of the horror story, via a handful of irregular swabs, to this day, O’Brien has been vocal in slamming the “science’’ of cobalt rules and the behaviour of stewards throughout the saga.

The qualified lawyer had stood – ironically – on steps of court houses, as a horse trainer, to demand his innocence and slam the rules and lawmakers.

“Looking back, it’s all just a haze. But the whole cobalt thing has been an industry debacle,’’ he says.

O’Brien had been battered, which makes his rapid resurrection, highlighted by last year’s Melbourne Cup win, so remarkable.

O’Brien spent the aftermath of Vow And Declare’s victory in disbelief; not just because he thought the horse had run fourth but because of the contrast of these jubilant scenes to the uncertainty of the dark times that preceded it. “The enormity took a while to sink in,” he says. “When they crossed the line, I had to look for recognition on other people’s faces to see if we’d won.’’

O’Brien has trained 20 group 1 winners in 25 years; starting way back at Epsom in the mid-1990s with Mad Hatter, a cheap colt bought by mates and family members – a kick-start for the law student who’d abandoned the books for a stopwatch.

He only had a handful in work at Epsom but Mad Hatter went on to compete in an Australian Guineas and other good ones followed. O’Brien seemed to have an eye for a yearling.

When Epsom closed in 1997, O’Brien bought stables at the back of Flemington racecourse.

The stable grew and O’Brien started making a name for himself, winning the 2007 Caulfield Cup with Master O’Reilly and the 2013 Cox Plate with Shamus Award.

But it’s been the past 12 to 18 months, the resurrection, where O’Brien has become not just a training giant but a challenging, disruptive voice in a sport that has always resented radicals and covets tradition. O’Brien does not train like his predecessors or many of his rivals.

November and believes the Melbourne Cup could be successfully be transplanted from the first Tuesday in November to the first Tuesday in December.

The VRC’s response to disruptors like O’Brien has been: not on your life.

The Victoria Derby has been run over 2500 metres for many decades but O’Brien has long argued the marathon trip “destroys’’ immature three-year-olds.

“A Melbourne Cup in December would be a huge leap forward and the derby thing is just common sense. Running group 1 races at the end of winter, like with the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield, dragging horses out in the depths of winter to get them ready … it’s all just tradition, not common sense,’’ he said.

O’Brien, the trainer who marches to his own tune, might have a handful of runners in the Melbourne Cup, including Vow And Declare and Russian Camelot, and one or two trained by new client and leviathan owner Lloyd Williams. They will have arrived at the Cup via O’Brien’s creative script. ●

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t’s almost 30 years to the day since I stood beside Murray Baker in a small room at Flemington to watch the 1990 Melbourne Cup. For Baker, an emerging New Zealand trainer with an intriguing background, it was his second attempt at winning the cup with his star galloper The Phantom, which was one of the favourites. The previous year, The Phantom had finished the unluckiest of fourths behind Tawrrific, and this was unfinished business.

For me, it was my 18th year covering the Cup as a racing journalist. I was much more nervous than Baker, dogged by a churning gut and unease built into the psyche of any ardent Australia racing fan as the expectation built towards “The Race That Stops A Nation”, as the Victoria Racing Club has trademarked.

In many ways, the VRC should have looked broader, because in real terms the Cup is a race that stops “a nation and two oblong islands”. From Invercargill to Auckland, New Zealand also comes to a standstill for the around three minutes and 20 seconds on the first Tuesday each November.

Had the 1990 Cup been run in three minutes and 20 seconds, The Phantom probably would have won.

Instead, thanks to a hectic, energy-sapping pace set by former Argentinian horse, Savage Toss, owned by media man Mike Willesee; a horse of rare royal bloodline; and a legendary trainer with the Cup in his DNA, Baker’s horse was beaten, finishing bravely for second behind Kingston Rule, a handsome rich chestnut born in the US with famous parents, Kentucky Derby hero Secretariat and the Australian Horse of the Year Rose of Kingston.

For a fleeting moment, The Phantom made a charge at about 300 metres, so much so I broke a punting rule of racing never to go the early “crow” and nudged Baker. “Here he comes,” I declared.

Baker said nothing. He knew The Phantom had run his race.

Kingston Rule, ridden by Darren Beadman, kept going strongly to the line to win in three minutes 16.3 seconds, the fastest Cup in history, and one that will stand the test of time. It was his trainer Bart Cummings’ seventh of 12 Melbourne Cup winners.

If there was disappointment for Baker, he didn’t show it. He turned to me and simply said: “Bart, eh, let’s get a beer.”

This stoic, pragmatism is a trademark of Baker, now 74 and still in search of his first Cup winner after three decades of coming to Melbourne for what he calls, “the best racing in the world”.

Baker has trophies for wins in the Caulfield Cup (2015, Mongolian Khan), Victoria Derby (2010, Lion Tamer) and enough group 1 wins with such champions as It’s a Dundeel and Turn Me Loose to

SPRING RACING

Kiwi legend’s distant Cup hope Racing journalist Danny Power reflects on trainer Murray Baker’s 30-year quest to win the Melbourne Cup, but this time from afar. make him the most successful New Zealand-based trainer in Australia. But it’s a Melbourne Cup that he covets.

The smell of spring in Melbourne is the only thing I’ve seen get Baker excited. He rubs his hands with glee when I see him each year. “It’s on again,” he declares. “I’m addicted to Australian racing.

I get withdrawal symptoms when I can’t find one to take over there for the big races,” is a quote he loves to trot out.

Not much changes with Baker, he’s a creature of habit. He can afford to stay five-star, but he continues to “board” at the Footscray Motor Inn to be near Flemington where his horses are stabled.

“I get withdrawal symptoms when I can’t find one to take over there for the big races.” MURRAY BAKER But he has upgraded his mode of travel since the days of The Phantom from a clapped-out, rent-abomb to having a resident chauffeur … me.

Baker has rarely missed a Melbourne spring carnival since 1990, but he will miss this one. It will be a terrible irony if his horse The Chosen One can win the Cup while Baker is at home in Cambridge, New Zealand.

Through excellent management, racing has been able to continue through the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic, although it has come at the cost of crowds, owners and, as in Baker’s case, some trainers from overseas.

“I would love to be there, but it’s not possible. At my age, I didn’t want to go into hotel quarantine for two weeks and run the risk getting COVID-19, and I didn’t want to have to stay in Melbourne for 10 or so weeks with only one horse, because usually I fly back and forth from New Zealand where I have 80 horses in work,” he said.

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These days Baker shares his training duties with Andrew Forsman, 37. It’s a partnership that began in 2012 and which has seen them unmistakably the leading trainers in New Zealand, where Baker has been inducted into racing’s Hall of Fame.

Baker had his passion for racing instilled through the local racing stables at Hastings, on the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island. He combined working in stables with cricket that has him as the only trainer with a place in Wisden for his deeds in first-class cricket as a handy all-rounder.

Cricket took him to England where he played for the counties, and onto Europe where he met his Swedish wife, Maryanne. The Bakers have two

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children, Reidun, a vet and the mother to three boys, and Bjorn, a leading trainer in Sydney, and the “sire” of a son and a daughter.

Baker has been training The Chosen One from afar. The five-year-old, which finished third to Verry Elleegant in the Caulfield Cup on October 17, is in the capable hands of Baker’s travelling assistant, Aleisha Legg.

Legg, Baker says, knows the system and he trusts her implicitly.

She was here with Mongolian Khan when he won the Caulfield Cup and was favourite for the Melbourne Cup, only to miss due to colitis that struck five days out and almost killed him.

Cambridge is a racing town and it will be rocking if The Chosen One can win the $8 million Lexus Melbourne Cup at Flemington on November 3.

If I can get through to him on the phone after the race, there will be nothing exuberant from his end other than, “That was good, let’s have a beer.” ●

Trainer Murray Baker, pictured at his Cambridge stables, hopes to win the $8Â million Lexus Melbourne Cup with The Chosen One.

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The inside run Spring is when this jockey-turned-agent shines.

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or someone who left home at the tender age of 15 to work as a jockey, Stephen Baster has come full circle and turned into a real homebody.

It’s almost a year since he hung up his saddle after his final win. Now one of his greatest joys is waking up at a normal time and eating a leisurely breakfast with his wife and two young daughters. “I had achieved everything I could possibly achieve in racing – it was time for a change,” he says.

Baster went out on a high, winning the Sandown Stakes aboard Gold Fields for trainer Logan McGill.

These days he lives a much quieter life on a small one-hectare holding close to Mornington Racecourse, where he is embracing his second career as a real estate agent.

Transitioning from being a high-profile jockey is not easy, and Baster had been in racing for 28 years.

The secret to his successful move was to “plan, plan, plan”. He says he spent three years researching and retraining for his career switch.

The value of networking has also paid off as he has recently joined the new Marshall White Mornington Peninsula office, in Mount Eliza.

He had met Marshall White director John “Jack” Bongiorno, who has interests in horses (Bongiorno was a part owner of the Irish-bred stayer Fiorente, who won the 2013 Melbourne Cup), many times at the track.

Most jockeys retire at 32 but Baster kept racing till he was 44. Luckily, he didn’t have problems with his weight but for three months every year he would eat special meals separately from his family.

His biggest surprise since leaving the track? “That I didn’t miss racing that much,” Baster says.

“I have a very supportive wife and I’m still talking to people in racing but I haven’t missed race riding ... I haven’t missed it for one minute.”

Stephen Baster retired after last year’s spring carnival and turned his hand to real estate.

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Baster, who grew up in Brisbane, was tiny as a teenager and weighed only 28 kilograms when he was 14. “Everyone suggested I should be a jockey though I’d never touched a horse in my life,” he says.

After year 10 he worked in stables near Brisbane during school holidays. “I never went back to school.

It wasn’t planned, it just happened.” However, he wouldn’t like to see his daughters Izzy, 4, and Penny, 5, moving out of home at that age.

Baster had a successful career as a jockey with 1300 wins, competing in nine Melbourne Cups and coming third in 2007. He has had a long association with trainer Gai Waterhouse.

His recent racing highlights include winning the Oaks in 2017 and the Emirates Stakes in 2016. He has lived and ridden in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Mauritius.

At home on the Mornington Peninsula with a new career in real estate has its compensations, too. “I’ve had an amazing start, well beyond what I thought I would do in my first year.”

Work is busy and in the week before this interview he listed and sold two properties.

“I’m coming in fresh and energetic and loving it but with life experience behind me.”

“I’m coming in fresh and energetic and loving it but with life experience behind me.”

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In some ways, it’s not surprising that real estate beckoned as a career. Moving frequently, Baster has owned and sold 17 houses over the years.

He believes there are certain similarities between the worlds of racing and real estate. “They’re both extremely competitive, which suits me because I love a bit of competition,” he says.

Each involves getting the best results for the people you work for. “I had to make sure I did my homework for that horse – or house, it is now.”

One of the things he most enjoys these days is being close to home – now he’s working from home because of COVID-19-related restrictions.

As a jockey, he had to get up at 3am three days a week, drive to Flemington to ride and often didn’t get home until after 8pm. He also travelled a lot.

Not surprisingly, his wife Melissa, who was a jockey for 10 years, is enjoying the change. “As much as I loved and enjoyed taking the kids to the races to watch him ride, I knew the time was coming where he would transition into a new career,” she says.

Marshall White Mornington Peninsula director James Tostevin says: “Some of Stephen’s key characteristics are a phenomenal work ethic and a professional discipline gleaned from countless early starts, weight control, his renowned tenacity and the euphoria gained from his success as a jockey.”

Baster revels in the peninsula lifestyle – the space, the beaches, wineries and cycling around Red Hill, and foresees a new wave of people moving there.

“It’s going to be more popular now that people don’t have to go to work as often.” ●

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HOME FOR A CURE

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ne lucky new home owner will soon collect the keys to a fabulous new property and at the same time contribute to helping find a cure for children’s cancers.

Property company Simonds Homes and land developers Satterley have combined forces to donate a $650,000 house and land package, with the proceeds from the sale to be donated to the My Room Children’s Cancer Charity.

Bidding with heart

Simonds Homes and developers Satterley are donating a $650,000 house and land package, with proceeds going to the My Room Children’s Cancer Charity.

The buyer of new luxury home will make a priceless contribution.

The single-storey property, on a 465-square-metre block, is in the Arcadia development at Officer in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs, and has four bedrooms, an indoor and outdoor living area, two bathrooms and a double garage.

It offers plenty of space for entertaining, with an open-plan kitchen and an al fresco area, as well as lots of cosy spots for residents to enjoy peace and quiet.

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The organisation is dedicated to achieving a 100 per cent cure rate for childhood cancers.

Proceeds from the property’s auction next month will be added to the grand total that was raised by the Nine My Room Telethon on AFL grand final eve, October 23.

My Room ambassador and North Melbourne footballer Jack Ziebell is among the high-profile stars who lent a hand at the telethon.

For the past eight years Ziebell, the Roos skipper, has been taking part in football clinics with some of the kids assisted by My Room. “It’s great to be able to help out through the clinics, meet the kids and raise awareness of such a great initiative,” he says.

Over the years, Ziebell has also spent time helping to give moral support to sick kids by visiting hospitals. “When you walk into a hospital room, it makes you very grateful to be able to play football and help out a little by making kids smile; it’s a great feeling,” he says.

The brand-new Simonds and Satterley house and land package will go under the hammer at the 2020 Home for a Cure auction at 11am on November 14.

The new owners will also be able to explore nearby parklands and easily access several schools in the surrounding area.

The winning bidder will enjoy many luxury features that have been donated, including: ■ Builder upgrades, such as landscaping and fencing ■ $40,000 of Adriatic furniture ■ $25,000 of electronics from JB Hi-Fi ■ $7000 of bedding from A.H. Beard ■ $5500 of outdoor furnishings from Bunnings ■ $5000 of homewares from Salt & Pepper ■ $3000 of soft furnishings from Harvey Norman ■ 12-month premium digital subscriptions to The Age and Stan streaming service.

This is the second time Simonds and Satterley have partnered to donate the proceeds of a house and land package to My Room.

Nine has supported My Room for 14 years. In the past four years the telethon has raised more than $4.9 million for research, medical staff, equipment, and help for patients and their families. ● ● homeforacure.com.au

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Jones wrote the song with Steely Dan’s Walter Becker, who also produced the album it appeared on in 1989.

She dedicated it to her daughter Charlotte who had been born a year earlier – it’s a song about love and commitment and the challenges her daughter would face if she took a leaf from her own mother’s wild side.

Braithwaite released a new single, Love Songs, in July this year.

It was intended for another big pop star, Pink, but once he heard it he fell in love with it himself.

“Lockdown has been a good time to put my head down and try to write again,” he says.

“I can do it, but I am very lazy when it comes to it.

I lose concentration after half an hour or so.

“Sometimes I wonder if an album is even relevant any more. Everyone downloads or streams certain

Singer Daryl Braithwaite ponders why his iconic recording has resonated for almost 30 years.

“I love hearing people sing it back ... I say to myself, how good is this moment.”

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It’s a wild ride on The Horses

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merican singer and songwriter Rickie-Lee Jones wrote and recorded The Horses a year before she gave it to Australian singer and songwriter Daryl Braithwaite – a move that turned out to define his career.

His version made it to No.1 in Australia in January, 1991.

Braithwaite’s iconic version appeared on his 1990 album Rise and is still played on radio today.

Earlier this year, Braithwaite appeared on The Voice as a mentor for winner Chris Sebastian, the pair taking to the stage during the show’s grand final to sing – you guessed it – The Horses.

And just before that, he was at the Fire Fight Australia fundraising concert in Sydney singing a set that also included the iconic hit.

“Chris [Sebastian] was so excited to sing it with me,” Braithwaite says. “I know the effect the song

has had on people, but why it achieved that iconic status is honestly something I can’t pinpoint.

“I have spoken to Rickie-Lee Jones about it and [I] sit there and wonder why, as she does too.

“Maybe it’s the lyrics, maybe it’s the melody, maybe it’s the voice, but who knows why it resonated as much as it did at the time? It’s been 30 years.”

The Horses was recorded at a time when Australia was in recession. “Now we have COVID-19 and so much more is happening. Maybe there’s comfort in the song for people now more than ever,” he says.

“I love hearing people sing it back; that part is so rewarding. Every time it happens I say to myself, how good is this moment.”

The Horses also featured the amazing vocals of New Zealand artist Margaret Ulrich who, due to a scheduling conflict, couldn’t appear in the video clip. Model Gillian Bailey appears instead.

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songs. But maybe I’ll give four or six songs a crack.

Co-writing four would be great. I’d be more than happy to do that.”

Best known for his time in 1970s band Sherbet, Braithwaite looks back at those days as some of the most magical.

“Bands from the ’70s and ’80s made exceptional music that is different from today, but it’s strange how the younger generation have turned back to listen to what we were doing then,” he says.

“When I joined Sherbet, it was much to my dad’s disapproval, he couldn’t believe I was joining a band that would pay me $10 a week.

“We went to England and up to Scotland and toured all of Australia. Sherbet wasn’t a job to me. It was a group of us travelling wherever our music was successful. That’s where I learnt the craft of being a singer and performing.” ●

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Three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a retreat are upstairs.

The house has solid timber floors, a study, heating and cooling, a sand pit, attic storage and security. It is close to schools, shopping and transport. ● BEVERLEY JOHANSON

Agent: Kay & Burton, Rebecca Edwards 0423 759 481 Price: $3.9 million-$4.2 million Expressions of interest: close 5pm, November 10

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The grandeur of the 19th century has been retained here, but the amenity is all contemporary. Beautifully renovated, the ground floor is now given over to living areas, with formal rooms at the front and the family room and a stunning grey and white kitchen at the rear opening to a decked and landscaped garden. At the back of the block, a bedroom with en suite sits above the double garage. On the first floor, the main bedroom has a luxurious en suite and large walk-in wardrobe. Two further bedrooms share a bathroom and one has a balcony to the rear garden. The home is close to shopping, transport and schools. ● BEVERLEY JOHANSON

Agent: R.T. Edgar, Jack Edgar 0428 222 430 Price: $3.75 million-$4 million Expressions of interest: close noon, November 13 DOM A IN REV IEW

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Inspired architecture, bespoke interior design and serene gardens promote a calmly empowered approach to life here.

The corner block measures around 1170 square metres. With its winged format encircling a central courtyard, the house has the look and feel of a contemporary gallery. Internal light abounds. The fitted office is perfect for working from home; there’s a bar and a fireplace in the lounge and dining room, and both it and the open-plan hub give on to the rear terrace and garden. Sitting solo on the first floor, the main bedroom (with walk-in wardrobe and en suite) is about as private as you get. Rock-solid construction, twin sets of Gaggenau appliances, limestone floors, zoned heating and cooling, a cubby, a pond and a turret stamp further, signature style. ● KAY KEIGHERY

Agent: Gary Peer, Phillip Kingston 0414 353 547 Price: $5.4 million-$5.94 million Expressions of interest: close 4pm, November 5

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study, lounge and open-plan kitchen and

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a balcony overlooking Centre Place Arcade,

meals. Upstairs, a bathroom and three

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with other property highlights including

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This Californian bungalow couples updated

area with a protected entertainment deck,

Located at the intersection of two of

charisma with a coveted and convenient

beyond which the separate spa, infinity

Melbourne’s most iconic city streets, this

location in the Sunnyside Estate. Good

pool and lush lawns break the blue and

apartment in Majorca House on Flinders

looks prevail from the brick-and-render

green should never be seen rule to pleasing

Lane places residents in the heart of the

facade to the enviably appointed backyard.

effect. ● KAY KEIGHERY

vibrant laneway precinct. Designed by

Features include panelled walls, plate

lift access, basement storage, hardwood floors and underfloor heating. ● PORTIA

on ground, glass doors link the open-plan

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architect Harry Norris (who is notable for

rails and hydronic heating. A foyer, central

Agent: Belle Property, Steve Burke

other iconic Victorian buildings such as the

vestibule, two bedrooms counting the

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Nicholas Building and Burnham Beeches)

Agent: Nelson Alexander,

main with dressing room and en suite,

Price: $5 million

and erected in 1929, apartment 502 as it

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and sitting and dining rooms make up the

Expressions of interest: close 4pm,

stands today is embellished by some of

Price: $800,000-$880,000

front (and original) sector of the residence.

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Norris’ original features. A central living

Auction: 6.30pm, October 28

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Fender Katsalidis Architects bring their worldly ways to Ballarat with the Parade Apartment development. This penthouse apartment is designed to capitalise on views, in this case soothing sights over Lake Wendouree and beyond.

Enter to a foyer off which a hall separates the bedrooms from open-plan living. The main bedroom has ample storage, an en suite with a free-standing bath, and a door to the balcony. Merging sitting, meals, kitchen and lounge areas, the open-plan space is pretty much glazed on three sides and has four exit points to the wraparound balcony.

Follow the balcony around to the right to the entertainers’ deck. Drag your peepers away from the external distractions, and the stone wall in the lounge room continues the eye candy. ● KAY KEIGHERY

Agent: Jellis Craig, Vicki Vermeend 0439 965 311 Price: $1.85 million-$2 million Private sale

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plan living and kitchen zone which opens

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Bi-fold doors separate the front and back

onto a deep, north-east facing garden.

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portion of the house, the latter of which

Move in and keep the pink-tiled bathroom and the other original embellishments; or,

Retro interiors sprawl throughout this

change it up entirely with a full renovation.

spacious solid-brick house in South Yarra.

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features the open-plan family zone, with

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a kitchen and meals area overlooking a north-facing al fresco dining space and

The period facade of this Malvern

pool. A private and zoned off wing to the

The location places future residents within

East property is a stark contrast to the

east of the property features its own entry

walking distance from the famous eateries

renovated contemporary interiors that

and services the “kids” area, with two living

and retail precincts of Toorak Road and

strike visitors upon entry. Wide oak

spaces, three bedrooms and bathroom. ●

Chapel Street. Rockley Gardens, Como

floorboards, plantation shutters and

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Park and the Yarra Trail are also close

modern fixtures contrast with the original

by, providing a range of active lifestyle

Agent: Marshall White, Justin Long

ceiling details and cornices from the

opportunities. Nestled behind a lush

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property’s 1930s origins. Formal lounge

Agent: Kay and Burton, Adam Cashmore

facade, the house itself features a range of

Price: $5.2 million-$5.7 million

rooms and dining rooms, each with marble

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living options, with both formal dining and

Expressions of interest: close 5pm,

open fireplaces, are located at the front of

Price: $2.5 million-$2.7 million

sitting rooms; as well as a relaxed, open-

October 28

the property along with the main bedroom.

Auction: noon, October 31

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7 Edith Street, Caulfield North Private Sale | Inspect by private appointment only The latest build by MPR Design & Build Project for maximum comfort and designed with sheer luxury in one of Caulfield North’s finest neighbourhoods for family living.

Beautifully sited on a sizeable 356sqm (approx.) block that's very low in maintenance, these brand new 40 sq (approx.) townhouses are perfect for the growing family craving space to grow into without the burden of high maintenance gardening with indoor-outdoor entertaining cover deck area.

Fully-tiled bathrooms, two master bedroom options and two living areas with a study, its smart two-storey design with elevator access to the upstairs bedrooms delivers a functional and practical approach to everyday family living.

The two living areas seamlessly blending with the intimate dining space and the first-class kitchen (with Super White Stone wrap-around island bench and quality Asko stainless steel appliances) and true butler's pantry with sink and second dishwasher.

The second floor is dedicated to all four bedrooms with two master bedrooms on each end with ensuite and with a skylight over each walk-in robe.

On this floor you will find two more spacious bedrooms with BIR separated by the glamorous family bathroom with dual-vanity featuring a freestanding soaker bath as its centrepiece.

Sheer Luxury, 40sq Home with Elevator | 4 bed 3.5 bath 2 car

Zuzka Marsilli 0413 580 666 zuzka@watermarkrealeatte.com.au

1 St Georges Avenue, Bentleigh East

Tim Smith 0402 611 262 tims@watermarkrealestate.com.au

6 St Georges Avenue, Bentleigh East

2 bed 2.5 bath & North Facing Courtyard Private Sale | Inspect by private appointment only

Private Sale | Inspect by private appointment only

Comprising of just 12 boutique apartments tucked away in a quiet tree-lined street, 1 St Georges Ave offers modern architecturally designed apartment living inside and out that exudes warmth and style.

Perkins Architects have collaborated with John Patrick Landscape Architects to ensure the building’s earthy tones of timber cladding and grey stucco render blend in seamlessly with the natural environment.

- Modern elegant bathrooms with double shower units - Spacious, contemporary kitchens with Fisher & Paykel appliances - Balconies and courtyards with abundance of natural light - European laundry - Basement stacker parking - Storage cage and bicycle rack Enjoying a coveted blue-chip position, 1 St Georges Ave offers easy access to shops, cafes, grocers, public transport and recreational facilities.

Designed by renowned MPR Build & Design, this boutique abode of only 8 Residences is built over 2 levels featuring 2 beautiful bedrooms (BIRs) each with own bathroom, a study, stylish open plan living & dining with a designer kitchen opening onto a secluded North Facing courtyard garden. Underground car park with own access to each residence.

Currently Under Construction | Completion Nov 2020 Selling Fast as 4 out of 12, already SOLD!

Currently Under Construction | Completion late 2020 Selling Fast as 6 out of 8, already SOLD!

Zuzka Marsilli 0413 580 666 zuzka@watermarkrealeatte.com.au

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Designer kitchen with stone benchtops, Asko appliances, gas cooking and generous storage cupboards.

The light-filled open plan living area plus study opens to a spacious secluded North facing courtyard.

Split system zoned heating and cooling.

Secure basement car park with storage and own private direct access to your apartment.

Located just 14km from Melbourne CBD, 6 St Georges Ave offers the lifestyle you have been looking for.

This is an opportunity not to be missed, with the Bentleigh East shopping strip and amenities within walking distance.

Zuzka Marsilli 0413 580 666 zuzka@watermarkrealeatte.com.au

Tim Smith 0402 611 262 tims@watermarkrealestate.com.au

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184 Esplanade, Brighton Modern Magnificence in Beachfront Position of Pure Prestige Graced with cutting-edge precision, this exclusive 4 bedroom plus home office entertainer showcases breathtaking bay and city views.

Enjoy gallery-inspired open-plan living/dining, a commercial-grade kitchen, refined formal lounge, and a wide-reaching family retreat.

Spill outside to a range of alfresco terraces, showpiece pool/spa, and an oversized rooftop terrace with a sweeping 360 degree panorama.

Includes a 6-car basement garage, multi-zoned heating/cooling, Paul Bangay landscapes and much more!

PRIVATE SALE AGENTS Bert Geraerts 0418 514 090 Nick Johnstone 0414 276 871 nickjohnstone.com.au 248 Esplanade, Brighton |

96-98 Station Street, Sandringham p. 9553 8300

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Architect-designed family showpiece (3 Beds + study) Beyond its traditional faรงade, discover a family residence fit for the cover of a design magazine. Crafted to seamlessly connect its stunning interiors to its private and leafy surrounds, this architect-designed showpiece will instantly impress with its incredible sun-filled spaces and myriad of first-class fixtures and finishes.

With dual living zones and three generous bedrooms, there is plenty of room for families to spread out and enjoy. A tranquil lounge opens to the front garden, whilst bifolds in the expansive rear living/dining area can be thrown open to the sunny northfacing back garden for effortless indoor/outdoor living. Premium appliances star in the inspired kitchen, including a 900mm oven and Miele dishwasher, along with a large walk-in pantry.

Private and filled with natural sunlight throughout, standout features include a serene master with luxe ensuite, lavish family bathroom, study area, hydronic heating, ceiling fans, wood-burner fireplace, water tanks, mud room leading to double auto garage with rear laneway access.

Expressions of Interest: Close Thurs 5th November 2.00pm Guide: Contact Agent Contact: Sam Gamon 0425 702 574 Rhianna Hoyle 0408 100 583

ANGUS GRAHAM SALES DIRECTOR OF THE YEAR Thinking of selling?

As always, we have many active buyers in our database, ready to invest in their dream home. Angus can guide you through a specifically tailored campaign to ensure we achieve the best result for your property.

Contact Angus to secure an exceptional result this Summer.

Angus Graham Director 0401 505 259 agraham@hodges.com.au

Sandringham 10 Bay Road, Sandringham 9598 1111 hodges.com.au

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