HAL­LAN­DALE BEACH – Bar­ba­di­an cham­pi­on train­er Saffie Joseph Jr cap­tured his fourth con­sec­u­tive Cham­pi­onship Meet ti­tle and his 12th con­sec­u­tive ti­tle over­all at Gulf­stream Park in Flori­da over the week­end.

The 37-year-old won the Cham­pi­onship Meet ti­tle with 70 vic­to­ries and al­so topped the train­er stand­ings by purs­es won with more than $5.8 mil­lion.

“This has def­i­nite­ly been our best meet be­cause this is the first time we’re go­ing to lead in earn­ings and win­ners.

“I think last year we got beat by a small mar­gin in earn­ings, so it just shows that we have some qual­i­ty hors­es,” Joseph said.

“All the cred­it to the own­ers for giv­ing us the hors­es. We’re very thank­ful to them.”

Joseph won three Stakes races with a com­bined purse of US$165 000 on Sat­ur­day with White Abar­rio, Im­ple­men­ta­tion and Movin On Up.

With Or­tiz Jr in the sad­dle, White Abar­rio won Race 7, the Grade 3 Ghostzap­per Stakes over 1700 me­tres by five and a quar­ter lengths, in a time of 1:41.97.

Im­ple­men­ta­tion then cap­tured the Grade 2 Army Mule Stakes, with the six-year-old bay geld­ing surg­ing from the mid­dle of the pack to win the 1400-me­tre sprint by two and a half lengths in 1:22.48.

Movin On Up then brought Joseph more suc­cess by win­ning the 1700-me­tres Sand Sprint Stakes by three lengths in a new track record of 1:38.01.

Mean­while, jock­ey Irad Or­tiz Jr col­lect­ed his third straight Cham­pi­onship Meet ti­tle with 109 wins and Ken Ram­sey topped the own­er stand­ings for a sec­ond Cham­pi­onship Meet in a row with 18 wins.

The Roy­al Palm Meet will get un­der­way April 3 and will run through Au­gust 30.

CMC