
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: ‘One of the greatest equine talents on the planet’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I’m pretty sure I’m wearing my bum hairs as a moustache’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Shetlands can be deployed as stepping stones’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I have a major problem’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Expressing myself through the medium of modern dance’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I now identify as a hamster’
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Hovis’ Friday Diary: ‘We need serious words peoples, serious words...’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Whoever has annoyed her, please go and put it right’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I’m awaiting my call-up for Burghley’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Things in life that can eat you – things that move and things that don’t’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Please can someone find me a lawyer...’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Life sucks harder than a turbo charged leaf blower in reverse gear’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Enough is enough’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I’m sure I am currently available on Amazon as a large garden water feature’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: considering life choices...
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘A very large horse with a very wide bottom’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I’m a feather-powered Ferrari’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘What the flip flop?’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I am traumatised, severely traumatised... and may not recover’
