November 25, 2025 
Now we got bad blood.
The Prague Playoffs got off to a dramatic start when Simon Delestre was disqualified, and his Istanbul Warriors team eliminated, in Round One of the GCL Super Cup for…an unfastened chinstrap. The very specific, but rarely enforced, FEI rule was put into effect following a formal complaint by a principal of The Cannes Stars, sparking a social media maelstrom of discontent and a full episode of heated debate on Horse Bytes, the Podcast, with Olympian Dani Waldman and superfan Sadhbh P.
Should Delestre have been eliminated? (Yes.) Does the FEI rule reward unsportman-like behavior? (Probably.) Is Sadhbh superfan crushing on Scott Brash? (Well…) Tune in to find out!
