In 1900, a minister in the government of Francisco Silvela had a dispute with the director of the newspaper El Liberal, critical of his performance and president of the Madrid Press Association. When the two met at a Sevillian inn to smooth things over, the idea of ​​organizing a bullfight for the benefit of journalists in the capital arose. Since then, except for some specific breaks, the last one due to the covid, it has been part of the Madrid bullfighting season and with great milestones in the history of bullfighting, including the slaughter of Manolete to the bull Ratón, in 1944, that of Antoñete in 1966 with the triumph of four ears or, the greatest of all because it was the only one, the pardon by Ortega Cano in 1982 of the bull Velador de Victorino MartÃn.
And from that same iron the six bulls that put an end to the San Isidro Fair were announced, with a sign – one more – of no tickets, also recovering the award of the “Oreja de Oro”, a trophy established a century ago now. , to reward the most outstanding right-hander of the celebration, in which in barrier not in the Royal Box, Felipe VI was present (also Miquel Iceta, as Minister of Culture that he is). Finished the celebration, the spectators will deposit in urns distributed by the venteño enclosure, the ballot with the name of the favorite of each one and a notary will attest.
Victorino bulls for a one-on-one between Paco Ureña and Emilio de Justo, two bullfighters who know what it is to succeed in Madrid and have the approval of the fans, those of the sun, those of the shadow and those in between.
The one who opened the plaza was a bull lord (those who came out later, too) with a presence that did honor to his motto and his history. After a third of varas not far away and a quite quite by chicuelinas, reached the last third and after the obligatory toast to the King, Ureña began to lead with his right hand some attacks that were never delivered, the opposite of the disposition of the right-handed Murcian. In one of those, Victorino’s was left below him and what came next, with the bullfighter in the arena and the boisterous pythons passing over his head over and over again while the hooves trampled his lean anatomy, was chilling. Once the crews took the bull away, Ureña, made an ecce homo, with a huge bump on his forehead, returned to the bull’s face, tried it naturally -a chimera- and went after the sword to kill or be killed. Hanging from the pitons by his chest, he was a shambles and when he was able to free himself he fell like a striker, breathless. He doubled the bull and the public, even more shocked than the bullfighter himself, passionately asked for the ear, but to no avail. Ureña and bullfighting as a hero’s task.
With the traces of what had happened before clearly visible on his forehead, he was unable to put on the montera) but without going through the infirmary, Ureña faced the fight of his second bull, which also pointed to casta and, again, De Justo and a remove by chicuelinas , which improved the previous one.
The opening of the task, low and very bullfighting, was a succession of olés, and so it continued in round rounds. The bull, noble and encased, gave less for the left piton and Ureña returned to the right and even allowed himself
a look at the line while the bull looked at him. After a lunge to the law (after a puncture) the public, this time, got the usÃa to remove the handkerchief from him. Bull’s ear in hand, Ureña made a resounding turn around the ring and in the lines people pointed out the traces of the battle – not only today’s – on her face.
The fifth, bull-torazo-, was the one that offered the fewest options and Ureña, who offered it to his partner Emilio de Justo (who knows what they would say, from bullfighter to bullfighter) fought with him knowing it but with his sense agonistic of bullfighting, to the point of going in for the kill, receiving and getting rid of a serious mishap again.
Emilio de Justo’s first turn had his left hand as the starting argument, after powerful doubloons, but to everyone’s surprise when he changed pitons the rounds had cadence and even fainted. Bull with many nuances and intelligent and capable work of the Extremaduran that did not come to round off because the bull, one of those that are called “interesting” to obviate nuances, did not allow it either. The loud ovation after request for hearing not granted, so he recognized it.
Humiliating the fourth, Emilio de Justo sought more efficiency than showiness in the salute with the cape. Good fight on sticks, long charging the horse. Emilio de Justo gave Ãlvaro de la Calle, in outstanding performances such as the afternoon of 2022 in which, on the same stage, he had to deal with the six bulls that were for Emilio de Justo, already seriously fallen in his first. Victorino bull, one of those bulls that have given glory to cattle raising, with deep thrusts, that did not want to miss the rain – it would be missing – nor, even worse, the wind that literally blew away the second half of a task that started with everything High in round series emotional for the truth that transmitted everything that happened there and that – we said – the weather came to spoil.
A Victorino who received an ovation as soon as he poked his wide antlers through the pigsty gate to close the plaza and fair.
Emilio de Justo summoned him from afar, the crutch in his right hand, and the one from Victorino who went for it, greedy and humiliating. Compact and jalous series and even better natural. Good level slaughter (the sword did not work) before a bull that, surely, will have made a mischievous smile wherever the old Victorino is, just as his son did on the line.
On June 1, 1982, in Las Ventas, the bulls of Victorino MartÃn and Ruiz Miguel, Esplá and J.L. Palomar with them, they put a turning point in the Fiesta in which soon it was left – and there it continues – as the Corrida de Siglo, also seen by TVE.
Today’s has left the deep mark of the truth of bullfighting, the one offered by bulls and bullfighters.
To close San Isidro, there is that.
