Categoría: the bulls in English

A summer novillada in October Sunday October 6, Valencia’s plaza de toros, the first of four regional novilladas sin picadores organized by the Valencian School of Tauromachy. (Followed by Utiel, Chelva and Bocairent.) Seven erales supplied by the by now regular bull supplier to the Escuela, Antonio López Gibaja. Noble and brave little two-year-olds although some showed weakness in the front legs. For: Lucas Miñana – instead of David Lopez from Colmenar – (in black and silver), Mario Arruza (grana y oro), Borja Escudero (rioja and jet black), Juan Marin ( grana y oro), Javier Camps (black and gold), Eric Oliveira (grana y oro) and Julian Garibay – replacing the French novillera Anaïs – in a black suit with white embroidery. The plaza only half full, but a lovely midsummer evening in October. Miguelete. An easy novillo for Lucas Miñana, noble but weak. A porta gayola to receive the novillo and banderillas by the novillero, the last pair cut in half for effect. All placed in the rib cage. During the faena Miñana gave us some passes on both sides but the bull had too little strength to compete. A pinchazo and an estocada tendida got the bull down. An aviso sounded and I counted five fluttering handkerchiefs. Pidetodo for Mario Arruza. The last bullfighter of that surname I saw was in 1977 when Manolo replaced El Viti. Whether...