Webb was apprenticed to trainer Mathew Dawson at Heath House, Newmarket.

He was only booked for the ride on the morning of the race because the intended jockey James Snowden was too drunk.

In the event, Archer on Iroquois, which was second in the Guineas, beat Webb and Peregrine by a neck.

[2] He won two successive runnings of the Champion Stakes on Tristan - outright in 1883 and dead-heating in 1884.

[1] Webb began training in 1895 for Lillie Langtry, Lord Shrewsbury and others at Ethelreda House, Newmarket, shortly before weight gain meant he had to give up race riding.