Coming off its best year ever, Coteau Grove Farms now ranks among the leading buyers in the country. The operation, based in Sunset, Louisiana with a broodmare band of 63 head, was represented by four black-type winners from 71 starters in 2024 and the earners of nearly $3 million. The farm’s advisor Andrew Cary of Cary Bloodstock gave TDN a sampling of the variety of stallions the operation is breeding to in 2025, both in Kentucky and in Louisiana.
ANIMA GEMELLA (8, Ghostzapper–Naive Enough, by Street Sense) is booked to Cogburn. She is a young half-sister to Coteau Grove-bred GSW Tumbarumba (Oscar Performance). We originally purchased her as a 2-year-old in-training and she won her only turf start for Graham Motion during the challenging COVID racing schedule of the spring and summer of 2020. A big, grand-looking mare, her first foal by Caravaggio (Scat Daddy) was gorgeous and sold for $100,000 at Keeneland September last year to Bob Feld as agent for Amerman Racing, the same connections involved with Tumbarumba…