Hovis

The Destroyer

Hovis shared his weekly diary each Friday on the Horse & Hound website between 2008 and February 2025. Initially located on the popular H&H forum, he moved to the main website in February 2013. He published nine books, each to raise funds for his local equine welfare charity Bransby Horses. You can read all his diary entries below. H&H also published a final tribute to our much-loved equine contributor.

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Hovis

The Destroyer

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘The inequality of life...’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Our level of sacrifices need to rise to prompt spring to do its thing’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘We need to find spring’s equivalent of the little blue pills...’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘We need to talk about consequences and the definition of them...’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘If 2025 sucked any harder, Dyson would be suing it for plagiarism’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Unlike Elsa, the cold does bother us…’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘2024 is gone faster than a Polo mint near my left nostril’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I had to battle my urge to go absolutely full scale cowabunga...’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘This idea has more legs than a caterpillar convention’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘About as much use as boobies on a fish’

Hovis’ Friday diary: Sir Hovis has such a nice ring, doesn’t it?

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Where does one start when Ros Canter has ridden moi in front of my adoring fans...?!’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Unlike mother’s knickers, my guts weren’t in a twist’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘It’s official – I have the nashers of a landshark in leg warmers’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I am muchos de excited’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘He is small, ginger and Welsh…’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Very rarely do I feel a fraud, but...’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘None of us want a repeat...’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I haz muchos de news to tell you all...’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘It’s the arrival of the spooktacular season – and I don’t mean Halloween’