HALLANDALE BEACH, Florida (CMC) — Saffie Joseph Jr put the finishing touches on his 15th consecutive leading trainer title at Gulfstream Park as the 2025-2026 Championship Meet concluded its prestigious 72-day winter stand here on Sunday.

It was the fifth-straight Championship Meet title for the 39-year-old Barbadian, whose string of successes dates back to Gulfstream’s 2021 Royal Palm stand.

Joseph finished top with 255 starters, 45 wins and more than $4.7 million in purse earnings. He brought the curtains down on yet another impressive performance by capturing Race 7 with four-year-old colt Miami Frank and the Race 11 finale with Barakah.

“It’s a lot of help. Obviously my name is in the programme, but it takes all the owners and the staff. They do everything. It’s a full team, and a lot of people make it possible. We’re grateful and thankful to keep it going,” Joseph said of his achievement.

His biggest win of the Championship Meet came with Skippylongstocking in the $3-million Pegasus World Cup (G1) on January 24 over his stablemate, defending champion and fellow seven-year-old multimillionaire White Abarrio. Skippylongstocking also won Gulfstream’s Harlan’s Holiday (G3) in December and subsequently captured the Essex Handicap (G3) March 21 at Oaklawn Park.

Other stakes wins for Joseph came with R Disaster in the Hurricane Bertie (G3), Claret Beret in the Royal Delta (G3), Solitude Dude in the Swale and Neoequos in the Sunshine Turf.

He is eight wins shy of 1,500 for his career. Entering Sunday, Joseph ranked third nationally with $5.8-million in purse earnings and seventh with 50 wins in 2026.

“The Pegasus was definitely the highlight,” Joseph said. “To run first and second in that race and have both horses be at seven years old, both of them started their careers here at Gulfstream and they’re still going. It’s amazing.

“We know we’re getting toward the end. I’ve been thinking about it, to have those two horses in their final year, hopefully we have some young ones coming up to replace them.”