Roca Rey has shown his refusal to Morante de la Puebla replace Cayetano Rivera this afternoon in the run that closes the Santander Fair. Instead he will make the El Cid walk, which triumphed this Friday with a bull by Victorino Martín in that same place. Thus, the poster is configured with Toros de Domingo Hernández for El Cid, Juan Ortega and Roca Rey.
The director of Communication of the Peruvian bullfighter, José Ramón Lozano, denies the alleged veto, and through a telephone message affirms that “we ask the company to wait for yesterday there was a winner; and there was. And El Cid deserved to occupy that position.”
Cayetano Rivera announced this Friday that it would cause withdrawal in this afternoon’s run; Then, the agent of Morante, Pedro Jorge Marques, tried to speak unsuccessfully with the businessman, José María Garzón, and contacted the mayor of Santander whom he offered Morante’s desire to cover Cayetan’s loss for free and that his emoluments dedicated themselves to a charity.
Morante’s idea was very well accepted by the municipal governor and later by Garzón, but, hours later, the businessman told the agent of the bullfighter of La Puebla that Roca Rey did not admit the change.
These circumstances have been corroborated by Pedro Jorge Marques, who since Friday meets Morante in Paris where they maintain negotiations related to the monument that the bullfighter wants to lift the memory of Antoñete in the Plaza de Las Ventas. His idea was to travel this morning to Bilbao and be this afternoon at the gang door of the Plaza de Santander.
The Morante representative does not remember whether there have been two or three runs that this season have fought together Roca and his bullfighter, and in his agenda he appears that both will share Pasíllo in the port of Santa María, Gijón, Ciudad Real and Sevilla.
Marques expresses the surprise that has produced the position of Roca Rey, and affirms that his opposition is meaningless in a young figure such as the Peruvian bullfighter.
Anyway, it seems that it is not the first time that Roca express reluctance to share Morante’s poster and other rising bullfighters, such as Borja Jiménez and Marco Pérez, recently alternative.
In the end, Morante’s offer, ”he agreed at this same fair on the 23rd, in a hand in hand with Juan Ortega – he has not found the echo he expected, and the replacement of Cayetano has been offered to Manuel Jesús El Cid, which this Friday cut the two ears to a brave bull of Victorino Martín, who was turned around the ring. He shared a poster with Roca, who saw his work silenced, and Jarocho turned the ring in the sixth.
Morante manages the monument to Antoñete in Las Ventas in Paris
Morante de la Puebla and her attorney, Pedro Jorge Marques, are in Paris where they hold meetings with two sculptors, one Swedish and another Italian, aimed at choosing the design of the pedestal of the Monument to Antonio Chenel Antoñete, which promotes the Torero Sevillano, and which will be inaugurated on the morning of October 12 in the surroundings of the Plaza de Las Ventas.
The sculpture, almost two meters high, represents the entire Madrid bullfighter in the crew court, with the hood for a walk in the hands, and will be a work by artist Martín Lagares, born in the Huelva town of the Palma del Condado.
This idea of Morante will be carried out with the economic benefit of a bullfighting festival, promoted by himself, and will be held on October 12 in the tomorrow in Las Ventas. For this celebration, the confirmation of Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza and Luis Francisco Espá is expected, and the presence of Curro Vázquez, César Rincón, Enrique Ponce, Morante himself and a bullfighter who must propose the Community of Madrid is already sure.
The final budget of the monument is not yet known, although Morante has pledged to advance the necessary amount so that it can be inaugurated in the same morning of the festival, and if there was plenty of money from the benefit of the celebration, it would be dedicated to a beneficial cause according to the family of Antoñete.
That same day, October 12, in the afternoon, Morante would make the walk in the so -called Corrida de la Hispanidad, along with Fernando Robleño, who says goodbye to the arena, and Sergio Rodríguez, who would confirm the alternative after being proclaimed winner of the Chenel Cup, although this poster lacks official confirmation.