Carol Cohen, the owner of Two Swans Farm in Wellington, Florida, has made a positive impact on the dressage community and now hopes to make an impact on the new publication Equestrian Quarterly. Cohen has joined the Advisory Board of the new publication and hopes to add her expertise in the dressage community to the Board.

Cohen, whose daughter Rebecca is an up-and-coming young dressage rider, is a Founding Member of the Global Dressage Festival in Wellington. “I have been very active in the community, letting people use my farm, Two Swans, hosting Young Rider clinics and overall contributing to USEF, USET, USDF, Dressage 4 Kids, the Equestrian Aid Foundation and Vinceremos Therapeutic Riding Center. I’ve had the honor of representing International Polo Club at World Dressage Masters for the last two years,” Cohen said.

Cohen and her daughter began their dressage career with Lendon Gray. “Rebecca and I went to Glen Eden Dressage at the old Sunnyfield Farm and we watched Courtney King ride Idocus! That was it, we were hooked,” Cohen said. “Lendon found a pony for Rebecca and I bought a dressage horse named Beethoven. My serious riding experience started fourteen years ago, and Lendon was a major influence in our equestrian life.”

In 2005, Cohen purchased 50% of Come Back II, hoping he would be an Olympic contender. “Unfortunately, he sustained an injury and my partner, John Bryialsen of Viegard Stutteri, and I felt it would be better if he just continued to breed. But, I have a few babies of his, and Rebecca and I have a huge soft spot for everything Danish, our horse, Viegaard, the people, the country and their national bird, which is the Swan!”

Cohen was married to the late Alan Cohen, owner of the Boston Celtics, the New Jersey Nets, and Chairman of the Board of Madison Square Garden, where he ran the New York Knicks and Rangers and started MSG Network.  Alan Cohen is also in the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and Carol said sports have always been a big deal in their family. “Being part of the equestrian scene is in our DNA,” she said. “Our immersion in our sport is how I was taught and how we have tried to teach our daughter Rebecca. I only wish my husband had lived, as I am sure he would have encouraged us to do even more. It is an honor to have been asked to be part of the Equestrian Quarterly Advisory Board, I hope I can make an impact.”

Equestrian Quarterly is a high-end, coffee-table, equestrian publication in the same vain as Town and Country magazine. Equestrian Quarterly will reflect all disciplines and all parts of the country. Cohen joins a well known group of equestrians who make up the new Advisory Board, including Chester Weber, M. Douglas Mutch, Peter Leone, Tracy Brindle, Margaret Duprey, Mason Phelps and J Stanley Edward just to name a few. Advisory Board members will be called upon for their opinion on content and will have the opportunity to promote their equestrian sport.