[3] Kettledrum’s sire, Rataplan, was a top-class racehorse who won forty-two races including the Doncaster Cup and the Cambridgeshire Handicap.

[4] Kettledrum’s dam, Hybla, was an excellent broodmare who had already produced the 1854 Epsom Oaks winner Mincemeat.

[5] Kettledrum took time to reach full fitness in the spring of 1861 and suffered from dental problems which affected his training.

[7] Oates continued to supervise Kettledrum’s training, but moved the colt to a base in Lambourn[3] to complete his preparation for the Derby.

The two horses drew away from the field and raced together throughout the closing stages before the filly gained the advantage and won by a head.

He took the lead in the straight and after an "exciting set-to" he ran a dead heat with The Oaks winner Brown Duchess, to whom he was conceding ten pounds.

Brown Duchess's connections declined to take part in a deciding run-off, enabling Kettledrum to walk over for the prize money.

In 1872 he was sold again, this time for 4000 guineas to Count Forgach and exported in to stand in Hungary where his last known foals were conceived in 1881.

[12] Shortly after the pub was refurbished in early 2014, a couple visiting the UK from Australia donated an unusual memento to the owners in the shape of a silver-mounted ink-well fashioned from a horse's hoof.

Writing under the pseudonym "Kettledrum" named after the Derby winner, Edward Hulton was the original tipster of the Sporting Chronicle newspaper he founded in 1871.