![]() It is on display at the Noyo Theatre, where the movie will have an advance ''hometown'' premiere on July 19, and at O'Leary's Feed and Seed, where horse owners buying two doses of Ivercare horse de-wormer get a free Seabiscuit cap.īut nowhere is Seabiscuit's spirit more deeply felt than at Ridgewood Ranch, a majestic 5,000-acre swath of otherworldly scenery tucked into the Coast Range, where under an oak tree - exactly which one remains a secret - the hallowed thoroughbred is buried. Howard, the multimillionaire owner of the racehorse that captivated the nation in the late 30's, pulled up stakes here not long after Seabiscuit's death in 1947, the Seabiscuit connection still runs deep. And why the Mendocino County Museum has installed an exhibit of Seabiscuit memorabilia, including his custom-made leather skullcap - so he would not hit his head on the overhang of his private rail car - and a silver-plated horseshoe from the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap on loan from Bob Hope. Why the Baechtel Creek Inn and Spa is putting the finishing touches on a new Seabiscuit Room. ![]() Why the mayor has issued a proclamation temporarily changing the name of East Commercial Street to Seabiscuit Boulevard. ![]() That is why, as the premiere of a major motion picture based on the book ''Seabiscuit: An American Legend'' looms, the Willits Chamber of Commerce has recently opened a boutique called All Things Seabiscuit. Few people in this scrappy former timber town nestled in the redwoods would disagree that the most famous citizen ever to hail from here was short-legged, knobby-kneed, somewhat scrawny and ill-tempered - a mud-colored underdog, not unlike Willits itself.
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