Categoría: the bulls in English

9 October 2018, Festival. Dia de la Tauromaquia, partly in aid of juvenile cancer research, in memory of Adrián Plaza almost sold out. Bulls of different ages (in between October 2013 and July 2015) for: rejoneador Fermín Bohórquez (Fermín Bohórquez), Enrique Ponce (Daniel Ruiz), El Juli (Garcigrande), José María Manzanares (Núñez del Cuvillo), Román Collado (Juan Pedro Domecq), Alvaro Lorenzo (Daniel Ruiz) and novillero Borja Collado (Fuente Ymbro). It started at 6 pm. and finished at 9 pm. Rain The refined, classic rejoneo by Fermin Bohorquez, who opened the festival, was a breath of fresh air compared to the...

Novillos but no novilleros. Sunday, October 7, 2018, novillada picada, Valencia. Novillos from Los Maños, of pure Santa Coloma heritage. Aviador, Tostadino, Quejoso, Cupletero, Lorenzo (the name should be banned forever as it was a Los Mano’s Lorenzo that killed Victor Barrio) and Bonito. Excellently presented, bravos and noble. Every novillo came out of the toril gate like shot from a canon. Too clever, too strong, too complicated and far too generous for Jesús Chover (black and gold), Borja Alvarez (claret and gold) and Cristian Climent (blue and gold). A windy afternoon with spring temperatures in October. Jesús Chover...

Valencia, novillada sin picadores, October 6, 2018. Novillos from Lopez Gibaja, a ganaderia formed 25 years ago with Carlos Nuñez lineage, butnow use seedbulls from Toros de El Torero. In general well presented. Some gave the novilleros the chance to shine, others lacked strength or were too much to handle. For Diego Garcia (tauromaquia school of Colmenar Viejo), Yon Lamothe (-Bayonne), Jordi Pérez (-Valencia), Miguel Polope (-Valencia), Juan José Villa ‘Villita’ (-Madrid) and Fran de Vane (-Albacete). A fine summer evening in October with half the plaza filled. First novillo: #48, Uncidor. Weak, uninterested. Stumbled through the faena. For...