
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: ‘It’s time to formulate a nationwide equine plan B’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘One has to make choices about certain things – like whether to zig instead of zag’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday Diary: bringing out the big guns to curtail my diva tendenciesBy Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I was back where I belonged’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘The speed she got me naked was remarkable and she didn’t even buy me dinner first…’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘everything went more south than a penguin on the pull’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I might have made her cry’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘One of them has to get on board and she’s worth a lot dead’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I know that I may be taking my life in my own hands’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I honestly pondered on whether I had passed over the bridge’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: off to pastures newBy Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: I have more rugs than I have livesBy Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I’m expecting clandestine meetings with high-profile envoys’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I am the weapon other equine teams are terrified of’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: is diet-by-proxy a thing?By Hovis Published
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Hovis‘ Friday diary: I’m a good coach, not a miracle workerBy Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘Think about it, selector peoples, please think about it…’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: I have huge newsBy Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: I have looked death in the eye… and kicked him in the gooliesBy Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: I need your good vibes…By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I wouldn’t look out of place on Hunstanton sea front under the pseudonym Hillary’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘If looks could have killed…’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘The most loathed word in the equine dictionary’By Hovis Published
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Hovis’ Friday diary: I’ve never been so insulted in my lifeBy Hovis Published
