Racing: For the Notebook
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SIR JOEY: promoted from fourth to third place by the stewards at Bath, but this sprinter may well have won outright but for a sluggish start which left him trailing badly. His jockey then switched his mount to the wide outside of the field and the four-year-old made rapid late headway to be only two lengths behind disqualified 'winner' Call To The Bar. (P G Murphy)
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