Biography

It will be a first Badminton for Austrian rider Katrin Khoddam-Hazrati (35) who with DSP Cosma represented Austria at the 2017 and 2019 European Championships. The pair was also selected for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games but was withdrawn before the dressage.

With Oklahoma2 she was a member of the 6^th placed Austrian team at the 2021 European Championships in Avenches.

Her parents own a riding stables in Velden am Worthsee, Austria and bought DSP Cosma as a yearling in 2010.

Katrin also showjumps and enjoys scuba-diving.

DSP Cosma owned by the rider, is a German-bred Brandenburg registered 13-year-old mare. She is by the showjumping stallion Canterbury out of Farah by the Hanoverian Ferman.  She has been brought through the grades by Katrin. The pair also compete in FEI showjumping – in 2016 they competed at the young horse showjumping championships at Lanaken and the year before the eventing young horse championships at Le Lions. She is described by Katrin as ‘a crazy chestnut mare with a big heart’.