Kingscote grew up in Weston-super-Mare in a family with no racing connections and started riding as a child.

He attended the British Racing School and was then apprenticed to trainer Roger Charlton.

He won his first Group 1 race in September 2014 when riding the Dascombe-trained Brown Panther in the Irish St. Leger at the Curragh.

[2] In November 2014 he broke his wrist, elbow, and collar-bone in a fall at Wolverhampton but recovered in time to ride Brown Panther to victory in the Dubai Gold Cup in March 2015.

[4][1] On 4 June 2022, Kingscote won the Derby on the 5/2 favourite Desert Crown, trained by Sir Michael Stoute.