Kicking King (10 April 1998 – 21 March 2023) was a National Hunt racehorse trained in Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland, by Tom Taaffe.

His next race was the John Durkan Memorial Chase at Punchestown, where he beat the odds-on favourite Beef Or Salmon into third place.

[2] There was added drama on the run-in when a spectator dressed as Santa ran across the course and narrowly avoided a collision with Kicking King.

[1] Kicking King reappeared for the 2008/09 season in the Grade 2 Gowran Park Champion Chase and fell in the race eventually won by Knight Legend.

Kicking King went to spend his retirement with the living legends at the Irish National Stud in County Kildare.