
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: off to pastures new
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Hovis’ Friday diary: I have more rugs than I have lives
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I’m expecting clandestine meetings with high-profile envoys’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I am the weapon other equine teams are terrified of’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: is diet-by-proxy a thing?
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Hovis‘ Friday diary: I’m a good coach, not a miracle worker
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Think about it, selector peoples, please think about it...’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: I have huge news
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Hovis’ Friday diary: I have looked death in the eye... and kicked him in the goolies
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Hovis’ Friday diary: I need your good vibes...
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I wouldn’t look out of place on Hunstanton sea front under the pseudonym Hillary’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘If looks could have killed...’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘The most loathed word in the equine dictionary’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: I’ve never been so insulted in my life
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Hovis’ Friday diary: I’ve had the most wonderful week...
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Hovis’ Friday diary: I am still firmly grounded
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Hovis’ Friday diary: I have to question how life can get any worse...
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ’suddenly the mood went blacker than mother’s heart’
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘please pray for my parts’
Things have taken a turn for the worse for Hovis this week
