It could have been
It could have been It could have been a novillada to remember on May 11, 2019. The animals from Montealto looked fine in the enchiqueramiento. Perhaps a bit too heavy, with heads that would not have looked odd on a four year old bull but in general, we left the corrales satisfied with the result of the sorteo. At six thirty the three novilleros of the evening lined up and started their march across the sand. Coming towards me on their way to salute the president were Adrien Salenc, a 22-year old Frenchman from Nimes in a fire engine-red suit with gold trimmings who made his debut three years ago. On the left went Marcos Pérez Hernández, a novillero born in Madrid in 1995 and who calls himself ‘Marcos’. The color of his suit was a pale blue with silver. In between the two and dressed in a cyclamen colored suit trimmed with gold, came the young Valencian Borja Collado, the triunfador of the novilladas in this year’s Fallas feria and the obvious star of the evening. It could have been a novillada to remember, the weather was soft like an early summer evening and the arena was pleasantly filled to half of its capacity. Maybe if I had taken my notebook. But I forgot and I can’t remember much of this novillada. I remember the first two novillos,...
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