April 16, eighth bullfight of the Fair, day one after Juan Ortega, the bullfighter from Triana who the afternoon before, on the albero of La Maestranza, gave more meaning than ever to Bergamini’s sentence: It is bullfighted in verse.
Blessed bullfighter hangover.
With her – and an August heat – in tow and fewer people on the stands (hangovers are what they have) Cayetano, Emilio de Justo and Ginés Marín did the walk. In the pigsties, six Garcigrande bulls, first cousins ??of those fought the previous afternoon.
To Cayetano, bullfighter of lineage and what a lineage! There are those among the fans and specialized critics, since he somewhat belatedly decided to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors and his brother, they do not have him among their favorites, quite the opposite. Despite this, his professional career (always the maestro Curro Vázquez with him), since the presentation with picadors in 2005 in Ronda (it was not going to be anywhere else); the first Paseillo in La Maestranza in Seville a year later (ear on each steer) or the alternative in the Goyesca in Ronda in 2007, is not only being prolonged over time but in it, other evaluations aside, has made its honor evident. bullfighter and achieved triumphs in important squares, such as the Monumental in Barcelona (which has just turned 110 years old in solitude) in 2007, where he rivaled none other than José Tomás and cut off four ears.
It would be the image of Cayetano’s first and good set of arms in the throws to the verónica, who after passing by the horse attempted a lackluster takeover due to the weakness of Garcigrande’s specimen.
Smoothness at the beginning of the task over Cayetano and series alternating one and the other piton, better on the left, tempering the attacks, conditioned by the lack of strength. This quick-acting blow from above. Silence of the conclave after the bull crawls. There was no more.
Applauded Emilio de Justo in the welcome veronicas to the first of his lot, lacking presence and strength. Protests from the public, after the simulation of the bullfight, not attended to by the usía, with the bull also falling when it reached the flags. Everything pointed to a fiasco, even more so when after starting with care he drew a round series and when he finished it with the breaststroke the garcigrande went to the ground.
The nobility of the bull was visible and De Justo, giving him time and distance, linked the series of natural lines with excellent lines and finishing, with the more established bull. And Master Tejera’s Band was started. A salty windmill and the final breaststroke of the round were the prelude to another from the front and on feet together culminated with two extraordinary bass aids and one breaststroke.
Book lunge and fair ear for De Justo.
Ginés Marín, a bullfighter who handles the cape with great ease and magnificent air, did it in the third bullfighting by Verónicas who were received coldly because the bull opened up in the fight and the luck was dull.
His behavior in varas, oblivious to everything, continued in banderillas and boded nothing good.
Ginés Marín managed to fix him on the muleta to fight him cleanly and with a good hand in the round and in a natural way, although the proper emotion was lacking.
Ginés insisted on prolonging the task, ending up between the pitons with the bull already standing still and went in to kill the bull in a perfect way. The ovation rewarded what was done.
Cayetano’s second had, like his first shift, greater presence and the galleo was applauded for taking him to the horse, in a third of rods without pain or glory. And that’s how the muleta task turned out with the bull charging – it’s a saying – without the minimum of dedication, always with his face in the clouds, passing, when he did, just to pass. Cajetan handled the sword effectively and moved on to something else.
The fifth came out, another serious bull and Emilio de Justo threw Veronica’s knee to the ground. Ginés Marín entered her turn of quits (the first in the entire celebration) and did so with two chicuelinas and a medium of discreet note.
Very bullfighting start by Emilio de Justo, doubling low and a first round of very well-joined right hands, bull and bullfighter.
The garcigrande came up and the next series, culminating with the python chest to tail, made the music start. The attacks from the left were more disordered and back to the good three slow and long rounds.
The lunge, better executed than placed, fell very far back and there he lost the prize won with the crutch, leaving him in applause. He has another afternoon left at the Fair and I’m sure he won’t let the opportunity pass him by.
Voluminous was the one that closed the square and a bouquet of speedwells from Ginés Marín that he took with waning vigor. And when the pikemen left, he quickly went to the one who was in the querencia, next to pigsties, singing of his meek condition.
Ginés Marín bent over with him to try to fix him on the crutch and at times he succeeded and was even able to land meritorious right hands. As the natives had the merit because there the attacks were never clear. Returning to the right python, the bullfighter always firm, added two more rounds and, rapier in hand, went straight after him, landing high above. The return to the ring was the prize
Thus ended an afternoon in which the bullfighters were above the bulls.
