
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’ Friday Diary: The kingpin is back, while Barbie Boy is in the dog houseBy Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday Diary: ‘I am more fed up than a republican at a Royal Garden Party’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Mother’s growl would have frozen the blood of the grouchiest of grizzly bears’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I came down with all 718kg of muscled equine perfection on her foot’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday Diary: ‘I intend to sue the Royal Mail – and want to be paid out in polos’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Ditch Mr Flighty – come and ride the mighty’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘The ultimate come back kid does it yet again – whereas mother not so much’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘The woman has double standards as well as a double chin…’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: I only spooked at two things – things that were real and things that were notBy Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday Diary: ‘Seems to me that a good dose of moody mare is needed…’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘when it comes to skills, mother is the children’s safety scissors equivalent of riding’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘My IQ is not rivalled by the mounting block’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday Diary: ‘Why I should be called Sir Hovis of the Floofy Hooves…’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday Diary: ‘You humans are such peculiar creatures’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: And people think I’m the high maintenance one…By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘plant then prance’, ‘jump and jiggle’ or ‘spin and sod off’?By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I chewed my lips and thought of England’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: the electric fence was waving about like an octopus at a raveBy Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: I’m a medical miracle – not a lazy, work-shy layabout!By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: maybe I have been going about things all wrong…By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: apparently, I am ‘untrustworthy’ out hacking…By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: all this ‘New Year, new me’ stuff is a waste of timeBy Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘2021 has sucked harder than a turbo-charged Dyson’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: Happy Kissmuss one and allBy Hovis Published
