
Hovis
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’ Paris diary: ‘My little hairless Olympic chicklets were incredible’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Paris diary: ‘Guys, this is not the time for ad-libbing or any artistic interpretation’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Suck your tums in, stick your airbags out – un, duex, trois, Go TEAM!’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘None of you saw that coming, did you?!’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Drum roll please – here’s my big, BIG news’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I have news… awesomely exciting news’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I am just too intimidating’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘She lets me down like a small prick in a balloon factory’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I have given up trying to figure the illogical workings of the female brain’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Winter has stayed longer than an unwanted smell in a public toilet’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Is it too much to ask?’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: sun on my back, mud in my mane, filth in my feathers…By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I can reverse with more skill than most politicians’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Unfairness levels? Off the chart…’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I love my country, but I’m going to have to leave’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘We need to buy even bigger balls’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Enough is enough’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Help! I’m on starvation rations and categorically NOT allowed to eat the small ginger one’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I could put you on the moon without the aid of a space craft’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘It’s day 237,549 of winter…’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘you know what they say about boys with big feet – expensive hand-made shoes…’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I’m not angry, I’m just very disappointed’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Go forth and capture’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘This, my friends, is revenge time’By Hovis Published
