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Santa Anita opens signature meeting amid worries over FedEx horse shipping shutdown

LOS ANGELES — Near the end of the 1999 movie "Runaway Bride," Julia Roberts, hops on the back of a FedEx truck fleeing yet another potential marriage. Those in attendance are dumbfounded but not surprised. The character played by Rita Wilson, the potential groom's ex-wife, asks her husband, and the groom's editor, played by Hector Elizondo: "Where is she going?" Elizondo responds: "I don't ...
A general view of Santa Anita Race course during the Breeders' Cup at Santa Anita Park on Nov. 4, 2023, in Arcadia, California.

LOS ANGELES — Near the end of the 1999 movie "Runaway Bride," Julia Roberts, hops on the back of a FedEx truck fleeing yet another potential marriage.

Those in attendance are dumbfounded but not surprised. The character played by Rita Wilson, the potential groom's ex-wife, asks her husband, and the groom's editor, played by Hector Elizondo: "Where is she going?"

Elizondo responds: "I don't know, but she'll be there by 10:30 tomorrow."

If only it were that simple today.

FedEx is

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