Middleham Park Racing's Pershaada (Persian Force) backed up a promising fourth in last month's G2 Queen Mary Stakes and became the first black-type winner for her freshman sire (by Mehmas) with an impressive victory in Wednesday's G3 Veuve Clicquot Molecomb Stakes, a Breeders' Cup Challenge Series qualifier, at Goodwood.The 11-4 favourite, who shed her maiden tag over this five-furlong course and distance in May, tanked along behind the leaders in a midfield seventh through the early fractions.Surging forward once leaving the the quarter-mile marker in the rear-view mirror, she delivered a telling burst to seize control with 150 yards remaining and drew off late under mild urging to comfortably account for Adonius (Soldier's Call) by two lengths.The runner-up just held the late charge of 66-1 outsider Hell Of A Spin (Naval Crown) by a neck. Pedigree NotesPershaada is the third foal and scorer thrown by Listed Bosra Sham Fillies' Stakes victrix Mild Illusion (Requinto), herself the leading performer out of an unraced half-sister to Listed King Charles II Stakes third Courageous (Refuse To Bend) and to the dam of Listed Prix Vulcain victor Viking Invasion (Mehmas).The winner, who hails from the family of G1 Irish St Leger and G1 Grosser Preis von Baden hero M-Lolshan (Levmoss), is a half-sister to a yearling filly by Good Guess and a weanling filly by Big Evs. Pershaada is much too good in the Molecomb @MprUpdates | @rhannonracing | @LeveySean pic.twitter.com/1RqVHLYX43— Racing TV (@RacingTV) July 29, 2026The post First Stakes Winner For Persian Force As Nunthorpe-Bound Pershaada Annexes Goodwood’s G3 Molecomb appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.