After the first four bulls did not allow the bullfighters to shine in the slightest, Damián Castaño was aware that the fifth, whether good or bad, was the only possibility that life offered him to look at his season with a little more peace of mind. He put on his hat, took the crutch and the simulated sword and there he went to war, but a real one and not like the ones in the movies.
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School / Moral, Castaño, Del Pilar
Bulls of José Escolar, very well presented, astifine, meek, outcast, tough and dangerous; The fifth was tight and very complicated, and the sixth was the only one that allowed itself to be bullfighted in the final third.
Pepe Moral: detached lunge -warning- (silence); puncture, half fall, six crazy things and the bull lies down (silence).
Damián Castaño: two punctures, a rear lunge and a hair loss (silence); puncture, detached thrust and a madness (return to the ring).
Gómez del Pilar: two punctures -warning-, puncture, five crazy things -second warning- and five crazy things (silence); -warning- half a thrust -second warning- and two crazy things (ovation).
The subaltern Ruben Sanchezfrom Castaño’s gang, was caught during the second third of the fifth bull, and suffered a wound in the right popliteal cavity with a forward trajectory of 10 centimeters, and a second of 15 centimeters in an upward direction that caused injuries to the hamstring muscles. Facial trauma and erosion on the back of the nose. Serious prognosis.
Las Ventas bullring. June 2. Twenty-second celebration of the San Isidro Fair. Almost full (19,553 spectators, according to the company).