John Pascoe, executive associate dean emeritus of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, led the school's efforts to acquire more artists works, especially those depicting animals. Now, a nearly 7-foot steel sculpture of a horse by renowned sculptor Deborah Butterfield, coincidentally named "John," stands on a platform at the school’s Multi-Purpose Teaching Building in a large bay window looking toward the school’s William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital.

A new study in history is the first full-length academic article to describe the life of a once-influential veterinarian who has been overlooked first because of prejudice in the Cape Colony region and the subsequent apartheid that divided the nation of South Africa between white and non-white people.