Nakoma

This filly was registered as Nakoma on July 1, 2024. This page and all tags were all changed to Nakoma on this site shortly after.

MyRacehorse and Jena Antonucci team up for Rylee's Song '22, a two-year-old daughter of first-year sire and multiple graded stakes winner Vekoma.

Foaled:  03/14/2022

SIRE:  Vekoma (by Candy Ride)

Black-type winner of 6 races in 8 starts, $1,245,525, Runhappy 

Metropolitan H. [G1] (BEL, $275,000), Runhappy Carter H. 

[G1] (BEL, $137,500), Toyota Blue Grass S. [G2] (KEE, $600,000), 

Nashua S. [G3] (AQU, $110,000), Sir Shackleton S. (GP, $44,175), 

3rd Xpressbet Fountain of Youth S. [G2] (GP, $37,600). 

His first foals are 2-year-olds of 2024. Son of champion miler in 

Argentina Candy Ride (ARG), among the leading sires, sire of 

114 black-type winners, 8 champions.

DAM:  Rylee's Song (by Unbridled's Song) 

Unraced. Dam of 6 other registered foals, 5 of racing age, 

4 to race, 3 winners--Shareholder Value (g. by Uncle Mo). 

7 wins, 2 to 5, $272,056. Newmans Fast Girl (f. by Mineshaft). 

Winner at 3 and 4, $57,820. No Ice No Glass (c. by Tapwrit). 

2 wins at 3, 2023, $44,490.

2ND DAM: STORMY WAY (by Storm Creek)

5 wins, 2 to 5, $278,083, Explosive Red S. (FE, $16,500(CAN)), 

3rd Colleen S. [L] (MTH, $6,000). 

Dam of 3 winners, including:

    CAPT. CANDYMAN CAN (g. by Candy Ride (ARG)). 

    8 wins, 2 to 5, $793,597, NetJets King's Bishop S. [G1] 

    (SAR, $180,000), Hutcheson S. [G2] (GP, $90,000), 

    Bay Shore S. [G3] (AQU, $120,000), Iroquois S. [G3] 

    (CD, $66,- 817), Matt Winn S. [L] (CD, $66,278), 

    Sir Shackleton H. (GP, $32,800), Super S. (TAM, $30,000), 

    2nd Amsterdam S. [G2] (SAR, $30,000), Phoenix S. [G3] 

    (KEE, $50,000), 3rd Kentucky Jockey Club S. [G2] 

    (CD, $16,128), Gulfstream Park Sprint Championship S. [G2] 

    (GP, $15,000), etc. 

    Marejada. Winner at 3 in Peru. Dam of 8 winners, including--

        OLA PERFECTA (f. by Koko Mambo). 10 wins, 3 to 6, 

        160,477 in Peru, champion grass mare, Clasico Pamplona 

        [G1], etc.

        MERCYFUL FATE (c. by Koko Mambo). 6 wins at 3 

        and 4,  2024, in Peru, Clasico Presidente de la Republica 

        [G2], Clasico Laredo [L], etc.

        SAMOA (f. by Man of Iron). 3 wins to 3, in Peru, Clasico

        Roberto Alvarez Calderon Granados [L], etc. 

        Producer: La Onda (f. by Man of Iron). 5 wins, 2 to 4 

        in Peru, 2nd Clasico Pamplona [G1], Clasico Reina 

        Isabel II [L], etc. 

            Ola Grande (f. by Man of Iron). 6 wins at 3 and 

            4 in Peru, 3rd Polla de Potrancas [G1].

3RD DAM:  SABAL WAY  (by Proud Appeal) 

4 wins, 3 to 5, $115,280. Sister to SirWesley [G2], Morlando [LR], 

half-sister to Nats Det. 

Dam of 3 winners, including-- STORMY WAY. Black-type winner, 

above.

HISTORY/OTHER INFO ON NAKOMA / RYLEE'S SONG '22: 

The chestnut filly turned in a  :10 flat breeze (out in :10 4/5 and 

:23 4/5) while displaying a quick and efficient action and plenty 

of racy-ness. Back at the barn, she appeared to be a balanced, 

straightforward filly with a particularly strong hind leg. She looks 

to be built for speed and seems to be one who could come to hand early. 

The Mar. 14 foal hails from the first crop of the brilliant Vekoma and 

bears a notable resemblance to him. Interestingly, Cesar Loya–who 

purchased as a yearling, trained and consigned Rylee’s Song ‘22–

had previously worked for the horseman who picked out and started 

Vekoma. Loya knows Vekoma just about as well as anybody and 

says he saw so much of that superstar in this filly. 

Vekoma, by emerging sire of sires Candy Ride (Arg) (Gun Runner, 

Twirling Candy, etc.), annexed the historic G3 Nashua S. at two, 

the G2 Blue Grass at three along the Triple Crown trail, and turned 

in huge wins in the G1 Carter H. and sire-making G1 Met Mile at 

four. His Beyer Speed Figure top was a gaudy 110. His first 2-year-

olds have breezed and sold well  this juvenile sales season. Through 

Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May, he has had 11 progeny fetch $200,000 

or better, topped by an $800,000 colt.

Rylee’s Song, meanwhile, is by excellent broodmare sire Unbridled’s 

Song–also the grandsire of Arcangelo–who has no fewer than 32 

Grade 1/Group 1 winners to his credit as a damsire. Among that 

group are two runners from the Candy Ride stallion line. Rylee’s Song 

herself is a half-sister to a Grade 1 winner by Candy Ride in the 

hard-knocking King’s Bishop winner Capt. Candyman Can. 

After a standard post-sale respite with Antonucci at GoldMark Farm 

in Ocala, Florida, Rylee’s Song ‘22 has joined the same training 

program that developed Arcangelo. Antonucci will have strings 

in Kentucky, New York and Florida this year, and the filly will 

be routed to where the team determines she’ll fit best once she’s 

gotten further along. 

Expected on track: Late Summer 2024

TRAINER: Jena Antonucci

MyRacehorse has added Jena Antonucci to its roster of trainers with 

a Vekoma filly purchased at the 2024 OBS March Sale. Antonucci 

should need little introduction, as she took the racing world by storm 

in 2023 as the charismatic conditioner of champion 3-year-old Arcangelo. 

The son of Arrogate was just a $35,000 yearling purchase, but made the 

grade in last year’s G3 Peter Pan S. before taking the G1 Belmont S., 

making Antonucci the first female trainer to win a Triple Crown race. 

Arcangelo and Antonucci followed up with another history-making 

victory in the G1 Travers S. at Saratoga, with Antonucci becoming 

just the second female to win the prestigious “Midsummer Derby.” 

Antonucci teamed up with the MyRacehorse bloodstock team at OBS 

March to find another value-oriented prospect and landed on 

Rylee’s Song ‘22. 

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Official Works

Saratoga 7/10/2024  Dirt  4F 48.83  Breezing  17/50

Saratoga 6/30/2024  Dirt  3F   36.33  Breezing  2/6  (in company)

Keeneland 6/19/2024 Dirt 3F 37.20 Breezing 11/34