Chateau Farm started in New York City in 1962 as Chateau Theatrical Animals where Buster and Gloria McGill provided all types of animals for Broadway, film and TV appearances.

At Chateau Stables on W. 48th St., where the McGill family has owned and operated the smallest stable in the neighborhood since 1967.

For 33 years, in addition to working as a stableman at Chateau, the late Buster McGill, the very image of a carriage driver, always dressed in tuxedo and top hat took care of police horses as a hostler for the NYPD’s Mounted Unit at Pelham Bay in the Bronx.

Now, Anita Gerami, runs the farm with her husband Alex and her mother, Gloria McGill in East Earl, PA.