Cooling down in the sea
From the pioneer days of Auroville’s children travelling to
school on horseback, Aurovilians have had a long affinity with ponies and
horses. Today, there are close to 60, with the majority in Auroville’s three
communal equine facilities, but several also live in Greenbelt communities.
The conversation about horses in
Auroville started even before the inauguration of the city, when Frederick, who
was one of Auroville’s first residents, wrote to The Mother to express his
interest in bringing horses from the Madras Racecourse. The idea took hold and
even Roger Anger embraced the concept of horseback and horse-powered transport,
proposing to put facilities for the horses in the north-east section of
Auroville, in present-day Fertile.
In 1970, the Madras Riding Club donated a
retired racehorse named Bettershine to Auroville. Francis brought him to
Forecomers, where he would ride him along the canyons and down to the beach. “A
man came with the fir...
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