Full of “There are no tickets” in the bullring of Valencia for the first afternoon (tomorrow repeats, also with a full square) of Roca Rey at the Fallas Fair who cut off a large ear from his second Victoriano del Río bull, after feature-length task (a warning sounded at the eleven and a half minute when he had not yet gone for the sword) that began on his knees and went from less to much more. Roca Rey, who in his first turn (a bull inappropriate for a bullring in the category of Valencia) could not warm up to the position, threw his repertoire in the middle of the task, getting between the pitons and passing the bull with the tightness and firmness of the house. . The shock did not have a quick effect, the second presidential message sounded and on the verge of the third, the madness avoided the opprobrium. Despite this, the lines were filled with white (the pads acting as handkerchiefs, so obsolete) but the user thought that one ear was enough of a reward.
Sebastián Castella opening the bill and Pablo Aguado completed the shortlist and the best moments of the afternoon are due to the latter, both with the cape and with the muleta.
Aguado, pure Sevillian essence, handles the cape with a winged subtlety, such as he did in his first, also in which he closed the place, bullfighting Veronica with such gentleness and temperance that in some of them that is so hackneyed and not always with The reason for “stopping time” was pure reality, not to mention the Veronica stockings idling and curled around the hips. The task of that first one was rhythmic, very bullfighting, not only in the way of interpreting the lots (trenchlets, pinwheels or helped by the underside of the sign; natural and round tempered, subtle) but also in coming out of them. The sword prevented there from being a prize and the one who closed a celebration that almost lasted three hours changed his behavior shortly after the start of the task and left the bullfighter and the audience with honey on their lips.
Sebastián Castella says that his disposition in his respective turns could not go further because the bulls did not do their part.
Once the bullfight is over, the Monleón Arena, which in the morning was already filled up to the clock in the trimmers’ celebration, will reopen in just a couple of hours to, also to a packed place, with the bou embolat, something that has sparked political controversy because precisely politics had prohibited it in recent years in the capital (in the towns they did not dare).
The Fair will continue in the coming days, the streets and the square filled, to the brim, with purifying fire.
