
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’ Friday diary: ‘Life is completely unfair’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: Surely my talents will still be appreciated by someone?
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘The world is my lobster’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘The most amazing week of my entire life’
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Hovis’ Paris diary: ‘Guys, we need legs like riverdance and faster switchback turns than a politician on the radio’
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Hovis’ Paris diary: ‘My little hairless Olympic chicklets were incredible’
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Hovis’ Paris diary: ‘Guys, this is not the time for ad-libbing or any artistic interpretation’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Suck your tums in, stick your airbags out – un, duex, trois, Go TEAM!’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘None of you saw that coming, did you?!’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Drum roll please – here’s my big, BIG news’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I have news... awesomely exciting news’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I am just too intimidating’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘She lets me down like a small prick in a balloon factory’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I have given up trying to figure the illogical workings of the female brain’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Winter has stayed longer than an unwanted smell in a public toilet’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Is it too much to ask?’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: sun on my back, mud in my mane, filth in my feathers...
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I can reverse with more skill than most politicians’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Unfairness levels? Off the chart…’
