Eddie Castro certainly enjoyed his Father's Day.

As one of Monmouth Park's top jockeys, Castro is no stranger to the winner's circle. However, Sunday's effort will likely be one that Castro remembers for quite some time, as he equaled a track record in winning six races on the 11-race program.

Castro's record day started in the opener with Mithall ($6.80). The 24-yearold native of Panama then won the fourth aboard Golden Rainbow ($7.60), the fifth with Precursor ($6.60), the sixth atop Clear Faith ($4.80), the Bernie Dowd Handicap with At the Disco and the finale with Top of My Game ($3.60). The record for most wins on a single card was first set by Walter Blum on June 9, 1961, and was later equaled by Chris Antley, Julie Krone, Joe Bravo (four times), and last season by Jose Lezcano.

In front of 18,802 racing fans (Monmouth's largest crowd thus far at the 2009 season) Castro made the biggest splash when he rode At the Disco to the win in the $60,000 Bernie Dowd Handicap.

"We got a great trip stalking the early speed," said Castro. "He was nice and relaxed down the backside. Once we hit the turn I started to ask him a little bit and he inched closer with every stride. Once I really called on him he kicked it in at the top of the stretch and ran off for me."

Owned by Patricia A. Generazio, At the Disco covered the mile and 70 yards over the sloppy main track in 1:40 4/5 and returned $10, $4.80 and $3.60. LunaPark, seven lengths behind the winner, completed the $46 exacta and paid $3.80 to place and $3.20 to show. Flirtatious Smile was another half-length back in third, good for a $5.80 show mutual. Cuba, the post time favorite, never appeared comfortable and trailed throughout. Sunday's win marked the sixth lifetime and first stakes victory for At the Disco, a 5-year-old horse by Disco Rico from the Concorde's Tune mare Mary Lou's Magic. He has now banked $306,435 for his connections. Also on Sunday, Ask the Moon took home the top prize in the $70,000 Lighthouse Stakes.

In the colors of Cheval Corporation, Ask the Moon and jockey Joe Bravo took command out of the gate and never looked back, splashing home over the sloppy track a length and a quarter winner. Ask the Moon returned $19, $10.60 and $4.60 and topped a $123.20 exacta. Talkin About Love rallied from last and paid $13.20 to place and $6.40 to show. Annabill, who finished another length and a quarter back in third, paid $4.60 to show.

"We were looking for the lead in here," said winning trainer Ned Allard, "unless someone else wanted to really gun for the front, we would have let them go. She's just a really nice filly and when you're out of conditions this is the type of race you have to be in."

Sunday's score was the sixth in 14 lifetime starts for Ask the Moon, a 4-year-old filly by Malibu Moon out of the Valid Appeal mare Always Asking. She has now earned $200,250. On Saturday, Robert V. LaPenta's Our Edge led every step to win the $70,000 Coronado's Quest Stakes and Char-Mari Stable's Beacon Hill Road rallied to capture the $60,000 Anderson

Fowler Stakes.

The old adage of "bet speed on the rail in the slop at a mile and a sixteenth" was never truer as Our Edge took command immediately from his inside post and splashed his way to victory. His margin at the end was just a head over a determined Gone Astray, the 8-5 favorite who closed in the final yards. Endymion was third, five lengths farther back.

Our Edge, trained by Nick Zito and ridden by leading jockey Elvis Trujillo, raced the mile and a sixteenth over the sloppy track in 1:43 2/5 and paid $6.60, $3.60 and $2.60 across the board as second choice in the field of six 3-year-olds. Gone Astray completed the $22.80 exacta and returned $3.60 to place and $2.10 to show. Endymion paid $2.60 to show. This was the second straight win for Our Edge, a son of The Cliff's Edge who broke his maiden last out in May at Delaware Park, also in front-running style.

"He's really a nice colt," Zito said from New York. "It looks like he has a bright future. He beat some nice horses today, and it is very possible he'll be back there (at Monmouth) at some point in the summer."

"No one wanted to go with me from the break," Trujillo said. "He was going up the backstretch with his ears up and just enjoying himself. We put up soft fractions and had plenty left. I saw the other horse (Gone Astray) come up to me, but I knew I was home by then."

In the Anderson Fowler, originally scheduled for turf but run over the sloppy main track, Beacon Hill Road ran down the speed in the stretch to score by half a length over the fast-closing Southern Exchange. Valiancy, who gained command turning for home, held on for third, a nose farther back.

The winner, trained by Jason Servis and ridden by Carlos Marquez Jr., stopped the timer in 1:02 4/5 for the five and a half furlongs and paid $21.20, $11 and $6.60 across the board. Southern Exchange, an 8-1 chance, completed the $162.40 exacta and paid $9.20 to place and $5 to show. Valiancy paid $3 to show. Slew of Smoke, the 5-2 favorite in the field of eight 3-yearolds, finished sixth. This was the first win of the year in four starts for Beacon Hill Road, a son of Forestry who is a halfbrother to the millionaire stakes winner Park Avenue Ball.

The colt broke his maiden on the main track here last year and won on the grass at the Meadowlands. This was his first start on the dirt since last August.

Saturday, Beacon Hill Road was content to sit off the pace. He kicked into gear rounding the turn, collared Valiancy in midstretch, and then held off Southern Exchange late.

"This horse has just been training great," Servis said. "He's been terrific in the morning. I couldn't say whether he's better on turf or dirt. He's good on both."

"He broke running, settled down and let the speed go," Marquez said. "We got to the best part of the racetrack and he just went on from there."

Fan favorite return to Monmouth Donald J. Carroll's Hotstufanthensome, who boasts an impressive record at Monmouth Park, was set to make his seasonal debut at Monmouth yesterday against nine rivals in the $48,000 allowance/optional claiming feature at a mile and a sixteenth on turf. The 9-year-old son of Awesome Again, whose six wins at Monmouth include the Elkwood Stakes in 2005, is entered with a $75,000 claiming tag. Ben Perkins Jr., who took over training the gelding last fall, said the old-timer is doing well and has been ready to go since April.

"What with the weather and all, there hasn't been a spot for him before this," Perkins said. "He's a neat old horse, really easy on himself and us. I don't know if he'll ever get back to stakes races, but I know he tries every time he runs."

Hotstufanthensome was trained by Norman Pointer early in his career when he was a graded stakes winner in New Jersey (Grade 3 Cliffhanger in 2005) and Florida (Grade 3 Mac Diarmida in 2006). Trainer Teri Pompay claimed the gelding in January 2008 and trained him through the horse to win the John Henry Stakes at the Meadowlands last November. Joe Bravo, who was aboard that night, was to get the call again Wednesday.

Joey P. out till at least October

John Petrini's Joey P., who was all set to answer the million-dollar question in an out-of-town race this weekend, underwent surgery for a twisted intestine Thursday evening and will be out of action for at least two months.

Trainer Ben Perkins Jr. said the 7-year old New Jersey-bred, one of the most popular horses ever to run at Monmouth, is expected to return to action at the Meadowlands in October. Joey P. was due to be vanned Friday to West Virginia to seek a repeat in Saturday night's Charles Town Invitational Dash, a race which could have put him over the $1 million mark in career earnings. However, plans changed suddenly on Thursday afternoon.

"Everybody in the barn was excited about the race and looking forward to it," Perkins said. "Joey was fine through the morning, everything normal. Then in the afternoon, the groom noticed he was uncomfortable in his stall.

"We called the vet, and then he got worse so fast it was frightening. We put him on the van and sent him to the Midlantic Clinic in Ringoes. Dr. Patty Doyle worked on him.

"They had to make an incision," Perkins said, "but fortunately they were able to untwist the intestine manually, and they didn't have to resect it. Dr. Doyle said it will take a couple of months for the incision to heal, and then he can go back into training.

"The change in him after the surgery was amazing," Perkins said. "By 11 o'clock that night, he was looking for his supper."

Joey P. has a career record of 16-7-1 in 35 starts and earnings of $973,472 through his last start on May 23, when he won the Reilly Handicap. At Monmouth, Joey P. has compiled a 13-5-1 mark in 24 lifetime starts, with earnings of $697,991.