Jaén Fair: The president, in his place | Culture

The president of the celebration, Lope Morales, was in his place; This means that he enforced the regulations and ensured the seriousness of the festival by categorically refusing to pardon the third bull of the afternoon at the insistence of the public with the connivance of the matador Emilio de Justo. The bullfighter was about to hear the three warnings after failing miserably in the supreme luck after he mounted the sword on different occasions, the same ones when he lowered it to look at the box and pressure the operator to take out the orange scarf. The president returned his gaze with obvious gestures asking him to kill the bull, which De Justo did not seem to understand, until he heard the first warning and began what would be a rally with the sword.

Certainly, it was not a bull of pardon, and the bullfighter knew it better than anyone, which did not prevent him from making a fool of himself before setting off the firecracker. The always rational Emilio de Justo was not intelligent and he blotted out a powerful task, worthy of better final luck, against a bull that did not allow cape bullfighting, he went joylessly to the horse and, yes, he showed fierceness, aggressiveness and demand in the last third. That opponent was not easy at all and he was crying out for a very firm, very technical bullfighter, willing to go all out to win the game. And De Justo accepted the challenge, settled his shoes and dominated it in a task from less to more in which there were crutches from both hands overflowing with command and depth. A bull of great interest and a bullfighter in season. But some spectators asked for the animal’s pardon, De Justo stripped himself of his title as a figure, dressed as a village bullfighter and the end of the story has already been told.

Noble, dull and of much less benefit was the sixth, which De Justo fought with solvency in a task of little emotion. Despite this, and the half-lunge and the final madness, he raised two excessive ears.

Up to four were granted to Curro Díaz – the second ears of the two bullfighters were a gift – and he received two noble bulls of little joy on the muleta, which he bullfighted with his well-known good taste, in classy details, deep blows of the muleta. loose, and he killed them both with low thrusts.

And the rejoneador Diego Ventura opened the place, who noticed the difference, and in what way, between advertising with bulls from Victorino Martín or those with which all current rejoneadors advertise; between bullfighting a fierce and hard-lined bull on horseback or fighting a bull that is obedient, easy, generous and chosen and raised to be a faithful collaborator.

Ventura is one of the greats and came out of the match with flying colors, but he had to put all his effort into the game, tire out his opponents and gather technique and good riding. Two mounted bulls, which they pursued with zeal, with which Ventura was cautious in the first stages – the punishment bulls he nailed all of them to the rump and fleeing from the bulls’ terrain -, to temper them, later, with bullfighting and show off with his extraordinary stable of bullfighting horses. He killed the first bull with a lightning bolt and successfully paraded both ears, and another cut off the fourth, in which the horse Lío excelled.

In the end, everyone on their shoulders, an excessive prize, but the audience had a good time and, at least, did not get angry with the box, which exchanged the pardon for the third bull for a return to the ring, which it did not deserve either.