He was sired by Royal Hampton who won the National Breeders' Produce Stakes and City and Suburban Handicap as well as finishing third in the Epsom Derby.

[8] On 11 October at Newmarket Kirkconnel started 3/1 favourite for the Middle Park Plate but finished fourth behind Speedwell, Keelson and Raconteur.

On 1 May, Kirkconnel, ridden by John Watts and equipped with blinkers,[12] started at odds of 10/1 in an eight-runner field for the 87th running of the 2000 Guineas over the Rowley Mile.

Kirkconnel was restrained towards the rear of the field for most of the way before moving into fourth place behind Sir Visto, Raconteur and Laveno two furlongs from the finish.

[16] On 9 June he was sent to France to contest the Grand Prix de Paris over 3000 metres at Longchamp Racecourse but made no impact and finished unplaced behind the filly Andree.

[17] At the end of June he was narrowly beaten when attempting to concede 22 pounds to the four-year-old Pomade Royale in the Clarence and Avondale Stakes Handicap at Sandown Park.

[19] In June he ran for the second time in the Clarence and Avondale Handicap over nine furlongs in which he finished unplaced under top weight and early in the following month he came home last of eleven behind St Frusquin in the Princess of Wales's Stakes.

[22] He began his stud career in Germany but had little success with the best of his offspring probably being the non-Thoroughbred colt Baron Kiki who finished third in the 1906 Deutsches Derby.