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. :: Learn How to Use TimeformUS Speed Figures :: Follow Craig Milkowski on Twitter