Why the Baechtel Creek Inn & Spa is putting the finishing touches on a new "Seabiscuit Room," and why the Mendocino County Museum has installed an exhibit of Seabiscuit memorabilia, including his custom-made leather skullcap - so he wouldn't 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. This is why, as a major motion picture based on the book "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" looms, the Willits Chamber of Commerce recently opened a boutique called "All Things Seabiscuit." Why the mayor has issued a proclamation temporarily changing the name of East Commercial Street to Seabiscuit Boulevard. 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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