It wasn't until one rainy day when the little pony was pulling a small cart with several stars aboard to the races at Epsom that they found the title for which they were searching. As the soaking wet little animal was pulled up at the crossroads, a bus driver leaned over and with a disdainful look shouted, 'What have you got there?' With justifiable pride Joe Elvin called back, 'That's our trotting pony. The Magpie.' 'Magpie!', the bus driver said scornfully, 'looks more like a bloody water rat.'

There was silence for a while, when suddenly Wal Pink shouted, 'That's it ... that's what we've been looking for ... Water Rat ... the most unloved little creature of all ... and we'll make it respected. Don't you see', he went on, 'if you turn the word Rats backwards ... the word Star is revealed ... we'll elevate the lowest to the highest in the firmament of good fellowship and charity. A Rat is a Vole and Vole is an anagram of Love and that's what we'll be ... a Brotherhood of Love.'

So, in the summer of 1889 they went to a pub in Sunbury on Thames and formed The Grand Order of Water Rats, and to this day that pub has a plaque to commemorate the event. The name of the pub itself was taken from the little pony and called - 'The Magpie'.