00:00GMP Farm is an equine oasis for rehabilitation and training located just 15 minutes outside
00:07of Saratoga.
00:09The operation was bustling during the busy summer race meet, but now with an expanded
00:13list of services available to their clients, partners Gary Gullo and Anthony Melfi hope
00:18that their farm can be an asset to the equine industry year-round.
00:23We bought this two years ago.
00:24We were just thinking about how we could, you know, improve, you know, the horse racing
00:31business a little bit.
00:33Really Anthony and I kind of had a vision.
00:36We just didn't want to have a regular farm, we just have a farm.
00:39We want to make a difference and I believe we kind of hit that spot, we're making a difference.
00:46We are a rehabilitation farm, we take horses that have gotten hurt or just need time off
00:52for a while and we try to get them sent back to the racetrack as quickly as we can.
00:58Whether it be something simple as lasering or PMF machines or just going on a vibrating
01:05floor to going a little further and putting them in the hyperbaric chamber or the cold
01:11water spa.
01:12We have a little bit, it's a little over seven eighths of a mile torpedo track that we use
01:18every day.
01:19Been pretty successful at it and it's been working pretty well.
01:23Bill Mott's a big supporter of us, you know, Todd Fletcher is, you know, and it's a pleasure
01:29to have them have faith in us to get them right and send them back.
01:34You know, I mean, that makes me feel good.
01:37We've gotten very, very good reviews.
01:39A lot of owners will touch back with me after the horse ran and they're like, wow, this
01:43horse ran one of the best races he's run.
01:46Being a trainer, I know what I expected when horses came off the farm and 90% of the time
01:53they were either too thin or too fat and I would have to give them 30 days or so just
01:58to get them back to kind of where I wanted them.
02:01So I know, you know, between me and Steve, know what other trainers expect and, you know,
02:07we better deliver, you know, what they would want.
02:11Between all of us, we're very hands on.
02:13We pay attention to detail with the horse.
02:16Last year, you know, we might have been probably 30% full in the wintertime, but I feel like
02:24we're really not looking at so much of the numbers.
02:26We're like looking at building something that's going to be great for the horses.
02:30We're looking at maybe trying to have this as a template to go somewhere else with this
02:37type of thing, maybe to Cal or somewhere else.
02:40It really, it's not about the numbers.
02:43It's about just, you know, the quality of trying to help this industry out as best as possible.
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