The veteran right -handed Curro Vázquez, currently in attorney tasks, said that the day Morante called him to invite him to participate in the festival in tribute to Antoñete could not hit an eye throughout the night; Then, it was César Rincón who confessed that he has not sleep since then.
The two, despite the initial doubts, will participate in the celebration that will be held on the morning of October 12 in the Plaza de Las Ventas and whose benefits will be dedicated to suffering a monument that will be erected outside the Coso, near the existing in memory of Antonio Welcome, in memory of the legendary Madrid bullfighter on the initiative of Morante de la Puebla, from whom the idea of the festival left.
This morning the poster has been presented, of which the painter Pérez Indiano is author, and the monument model, the work of the sculptor Martín Lagares. In addition to the three bullfighters cited, the rejoneador Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza, the right -handed Julio Aparicio and Enrique Ponce and the novillera Olga Casado will make the walk. Four steers will belong to Garcigrande, another to El Vellosino, another to José Luis Osborne -este, of Capa Embabo, for Morante, in memory of the honored teacher-, and that of rejoneo to the iron of El Capea.
The monument, sculpted in bronze and on a granite base, will measure 2 meters and 30 cm high, and represents Antoñe with the cape to the arm and with its eternal cigarette in the hand, according to the model that has been shown.
Derived expenses
The estimated price of the artistic work rises to 130,000 euros, which will be advanced by Morante, as well as all expenses derived from the organization of the celebration, including the steers, until the accounts and the resulting benefit are known.
It is also a desire to Morante that the statue opens moments before the walk in the presence of all the bullfighters short dresses.
Morante was the first to spend the floor and pointed out that “Antoñete deserves a monument because his bullfighting was monumental”, and “all we have learned from his bullfighting we have to thank him for everything he did for the party.”
Curro Vázquez (74 years old) added that he soon realized that he should be present at the festival despite the long time he has been retired, and added that he coincides with Rincón in the preparation, “although we see ourselves more in the physio than in training.”
The Colombian bullfighter, on the other hand, recalled that Madrid changed his life, and pointed out that he could not retire in sales as he would have liked. “It is very strong to return to Madrid,” he said, “even for a festival.”
The novillera Olga Casado also spoke, excited to make the Paseíllo with so many legendary figures, and hopeful to get the goal of being “the most important bullfighting woman in history”; The entrepreneurs of Plaza 1, Simón Casas and Rafael García Garrido, and the managing director of the Bullfighting Affairs Center, Miguel Martín. Although they were invited, Enrique Ponce, Julio Aparicio and Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza were not in the event.
According to the company Plaza 1, the tickets for this celebration, as well as those of the run that Morante de la Puebla Toreara also that afternoon on the same stage, are already exhausted, which guarantees the fact that this day more than 45,000 people will fill the layings of the sales in that double session.