TimeformUS Speed Figure Report for week ending June 25, 2017
Each week, TimeformUS Chief Figure Maker Craig Milkowski takes a look back at the weekend’s graded stakes and releases the TimeformUS Speed Figures for these races.
Stakes races for week ending June 25, 2017
Santa Anita
Grade 3 Precisionist Stakes
1/2 138
3/4 137
Fin 133
Top 3: Collected 134, Cat Burglar 118, Accelerate 113
Note: Collected is perfect in three 2017 starts and has won five of his last six – lone loss in 2016 Preakness; career-best TimeformUS Speed Figure is the fourth best in North America in 2017.
Grade 3 Affirmed Stakes
1/2 94
3/4 104
Fin 116
Top 3: Battle of Midway 112, B Squared 108, Term of Art 103
Note: Winner was third last out in the Kentucky Derby; this was just a paid workout; very slow pace, all fractions blue in TimeformUS PPs
Thistledown
Grade 3 Ohio Derby
1/2 118
3/4 114
Fin 121
Top 3: Irap 118, Girvin 119, Untrapped 114
Note: Top three finishers all ran in Kentucky Derby last out; second career win for Irap, won maiden in Blue Grass Stakes
Churchill
Grade 3 Chicago Handicap
1/4 108
1/2 110
Fin 114
Top 3: Finley’sluckycharm 112, Ivy Bell 107, Mayla 105
Note: Winner is now 8 for 10 in her career, with both losses coming in her two tries above the Grade 3 level; new career-best TimeformUS Speed Figure for Ivy Bell, who had won her prior three outings.

