Categoría: the bulls in English

An excellent evening in Chelva Four two-year olds from La Lucica (Teruel), a new ganaderia with Núñez del Cuvillo and Jandilla blood. For Clemente Jaume from the taurine school of Guadalajara, Germán Vidal ‘El Melli’ a student of tauromachy from El Puerto de Santamaria and two valencianos: Eloy Sánchez and García Romero. An excellent evening in Chelva (the journey from Valencia takes you through breathtaking landscapes) with great bulls, summer temperatures, a beautiful ancient village bullring with a more than excellent band accompanying the spectacle. For a young ganaderia making his second appearance on the taurine circuit, La Lucica couldn’t have sent four better examples. The two brown and two black novillos were great looking animals and the most noble and brave little bulls I have seen for years. It was a pity that – the rules forbid it – none of them could have left the arena alive. Of course in novilladas sin picadores neither weight or name was given but I managed to find out the name of the best one of all: number four, Mosquero. He gave up his ears and his tail to García Romero, a Valencian student of tauromachy already so advanced that no-one doubts his taurine future will be golden. But to start from the beginning. After a tractor pulling a steel H beam had egalized the floor we, the public (the arena...

Another pleasant October evening in Valencia Wednesday 9 October. Novillada picada. Six novillos from former matador José Luis Iniesta – alternativa in May 1998, Madrid, Las Ventas – well presented with an average weight of 450 kilo’s. The first three (including the substitute) extremely weak and falling over at every occasion. Novilleros: Fernando Plaza, new in this arena in a brick red suit and gold with white trimmings, José Fernando Molina from Albacete in dámasogonzález and gold and local novillero Miguel Senent Miguelito, who wore grana and gold. A lovely summer climate in October and two hours and forty minutes of interesting spectacle. Forget about Agualimpia, a nice little black bull who opened the ball. He was not too strong, had a shaven right horn and stumbled through his performance. Fernando Plaza could do nothing but one short series of right hand passes. Number two, Azucarero made it clear from the moment it entered the arena, he didn’t want to be there and very happily followed the oxen when they came to fetch him after a green flag from the president. Novillo 2B, called Estornino, went to the cape well but fell over twice after the picador’s pics. Molina tried, but his faena was very much affected by the weakness of the novillo. The novillada started with bull #3, Joyero, who reacted well to the cape, took two pics and...