Samuel Schatzmann was a dressage rider who competed at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, winning a silver medal in the team event. In 1989 he won another team medal, a bronze at the European Championships. A lawyer and entrepreneur by trade, Schatzmann was a big supporter of Westphalian horse breeding, especially of the North Rhine-Westphalian state farm in Warendorf. He often bought stallions of the Westfälische Pferdestammbuch in Münster-Handorf. In 2015, Schatzmann was honored for Westphalian horse breeding with the Silver Honing Needle of the Westfälische Pferdestammbuch