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Bjorn Nielsen: Alastair Down meets a man born into oppression eyeing Derby glory

Bjorn Nielsen at his home in Kingsdown StablesUpper Lambourn 23.6.20 Pic: Edward Whitaker
Bjorn Nielsen at his home in Kingsdown Stables, Upper LambournCredit: Edward Whitaker

Since ducks first decided that webbed feet were the future, the Derby was run on the first Wednesday in June. But there are indeed no certainties in racing and in 1995 it was switched to Saturday.

Next weekend our greatest race will finally hove into view on Saturday, July 4. At this rate by the year 2220 it could form part of the run-up to Christmas with racegoers welcomed into Epsom by a chorus of O Come, All Ye Faithful.

And on Saturday one of the most ardently faithful of Derby devotees will be on hand when Bjorn Nielsen, owner of favourite English King,
returns to Epsom, the town that was his physical home as a teenager and has been his spiritual home every breath-drawing day since.

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