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: And people think I’m the high maintenance one…

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘plant then prance’, ‘jump and jiggle’ or ‘spin and sod off’?

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I chewed my lips and thought of England’

Hovis’ Friday diary: the electric fence was waving about like an octopus at a rave

Hovis’ Friday diary: I’m a medical miracle – not a lazy, work-shy layabout!

Hovis’ Friday diary: maybe I have been going about things all wrong...

Hovis’ Friday diary: apparently, I am ‘untrustworthy’ out hacking...

Hovis’ Friday diary: all this ‘New Year, new me’ stuff is a waste of time

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘2021 has sucked harder than a turbo-charged Dyson’

Hovis’ Friday diary: Happy Kissmuss one and all

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Christmas + boredom + social media sociopaths = hell for horses’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘It’s time to formulate a nationwide equine plan B’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘One has to make choices about certain things – like whether to zig instead of zag’

Hovis’ Friday Diary: bringing out the big guns to curtail my diva tendencies

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I was back where I belonged’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘The speed she got me naked was remarkable and she didn’t even buy me dinner first…’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘everything went more south than a penguin on the pull’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I might have made her cry’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘One of them has to get on board and she’s worth a lot dead’

Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I know that I may be taking my life in my own hands’