July 1990-July 2020 ,Thirty years Poncismo
July 1990-July 2020 Thirty years Poncismo On Saturday July 28, after a lunch with the medical staff of the bullring I went back to Tinto y Oro for my daily siesta. Although it began sunny, the day had become overcast and now it looked like rain and a thunderstorm threatened to burst. But the weather wasn’t the least of our worries. Some evenings earlier, during the traditional ‘desencajonada’, one of the animals from the Galache ranch, after being released from his travelling crate, had gone berserk, killed one of his brothers and injured two other. Upon learning that three Galache bulls had been taken out by the vets (well one was dead wasn’t it?) the empresa got four animals from Martin Berrocal’s El Toril. And because they had left it so late, he could only get them four five year-olds. When told about the change, first matador Roberto Dominguez bluntly refused to face them arguing that he was medically unfit and hadn’t been able to get up in the morning and that his ‘Santander knee’ had locked. A medical certificate was promptly produced and presented. Second on the bill was Vicente Ruiz El Soro who apparently had done the same thing. He also argued that his bad leg had gotten worse and hastily required the necessary document from his personal physician in Madrid who sent it to Valencia by...
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