This Saturday I saw Novillada Con Picadores which are young upcoming fighters with horses delivering a vara on the second act.
Fight one featured Daniel Crespo a 20 year old from Puerto Santa Maria fighting a 445 kg 4 yo Penajara De Casta Jijona bull (an offshoot of Vitahermosa lineage.) During the second act the horse went down and the bull received two vara attempts. During the third act, he broke his muleta and dropped the muleta again. The guy also got thrown in the air probably ten yards but got up and did not appear hurt. I think his hit from the bull is what got the band playing in the third act. He got an ovation for his fight.
Fight two featured Pablo Aguado, a 25 year old from Sevilla, facing a 4 year old 465 kg bull. The bull tore the veronica in the first act but Pablo did not let go. His picador may have used too much vara. His third act earned no music. He placed one escoparda deep but still had to descabello after the judge had the horn blown. He earned an ovation.
Fight three featured Alfonso Cadaval, a 20 year old from Sevilla, facing a 430 kg 3 year old bull. His cuadrilla placed the banderillas, like all other fights during this night. He did get music for his third act. He placed one escoparda but had to do three descabello attempts. On the third descabello he partially sectioned the cord which was obvious because the bulls back legs went flaccid but not the anterior legs. He earned a silencio.
Fight four featured Daniel Crespo against a 460 kg 3 year old bull. He got no music on the third act but got the only ear of the night. I assume this is because he is from Puerto and had an efficient kill. His escoparda only went in half way, but he owned up to it quick and went right to the descabello and droped the bull immediately. This was the only bull in which the matador owned up to a poor kill immediately and put the bull down quickly with a follow up descaballo. In many of the other bulls the escoparda clearly did not hit the cord or the aorta and the matador would wait basically for the bull to bleed out and fall over, or for the judge to have a horn blown forcing a descabello. Novices are not the only ones who hope and delay, Jose Padilla did the same on the 20JUL fight.
Fight five featured Pablo Aguado versus a 445 kg 3 year old bull. Since he is from Sevilla, he took his bull on his knees. This was the only bull in which this was attempted. He dropped the veronica at the end of the first act. His cuadrilla only placed 4/8 banderillas successfully. His picador put in too much vara. He did get music in the third act. His kill involved two obvious hits to the spinal column bone with the escoparda shooting off. His third sword went in true for a good kill earning a de vuelta.
Fight six featured Alfonso Cadaval versus a 470 kg 40 yo bull. He dropped the veronica on act one. On his third act with the escoparda he actually missed the bull entirely. He dropped the muleta also. His second escoparda was 1 foot from the hub. His 3rd escoparda was also 1 foot from the hub. It took two descabello attempts to bring the bull down (once the judge blew the horn and said enough is enough.) He earned a silencio.
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