long-overdue mascot will better represent the spirit of the student body. He says that Gunrock the Mustang, which was originally named after a thoroughbred racing horse, doesn’t reflect the UC D ...

“Without it, we wouldn’t have the horses we have today.” So, the real Gunrock was a Thoroughbred — and yet the UC Davis mascot is a mustang. How did that happen? Turns out that students in the 1920s ...