Steve Vizard - Personal Life

Personal Life

Vizard married Sarah Wilmoth in 1988 and they have five children.

In 2006 Vizard’s Toorak mansion set a real estate record for Melbourne when it sold for $17.75 million after Vizard received an unsolicited knock on the door offering to buy the landmark home.

Earlier in 2006, Vizard chased three burglars who had broken into his Orrong Rd Toorak Mansion. Vizard was awakened at 3am by his 16 year old daughter who had seen an intruder in her room, and Vizard pursued the intruders into the street in the nude where he was nearly driven over by the getaway Alfa Romeo. The robber, Richard Lovett who had a lengthy list of 93 prior convictions, was arrested later that day after becoming involved in a fight in which he stabbed a man in the chest, puncturing his lung, and was subsequently sentenced for the robbery to four years by the County Court of Victoria.

Vizard's younger brother, Andrew Vizard, is Professor of Veterinary Science at the University of Melbourne and an expert on animal health having served on numerous boards including Animal Health Australia Ltd, The Zoological Parks and Gardens of Victoria, and the Australian Wool Corporation.

From 1990, Vizard and his family owned and ran the rural Western District station, Roxby Park, which they operated as a successful superfine wool Merino sheep stud. In 2002, Vizard sold Roxby Park to South Australian Tuna fishing magnate, Tony Santic, the owner of three time Melbourne Cup winning horse, Makybe Diva, who renamed the property Smytzer's Lodge, and uses it as the home of his Makybe Diva breeding and bloodstock operations.