San Isidro Fair: A livestock fiasco sinks Borja Jiménez’s trap | Culture

Six bulls, three from Domingo Hernández and three from Cortés (the second iron of Victoriano del Río), at the limit of the required presentation, without strength, tame and dull; three bulls returned. A guirigay of a father and my very lord in large sectors of the square in protest against the cattle, towards the presidential box and the Plaza 1 company. The most inappropriate environment to think about victory.

Not even by the way, the feat of Borja Jiménez’s entrapment could have turned out worse. Or was it intentional? Who knows… In this world of the bull, so closed, so dark, full of silences and secrets, everything seems possible. What’s more, anyone can think whatever they want.

The truth is that the Sevillian bullfighter’s bet has been failed due to the absolute failure of a fundamental element such as the bull. The bullfighter failed, it is true, in the supreme luck against the fourth and fifth, but the real protagonist has been the manifest disability of the bulls fought, and it is already known that without bulls nothing matters.

It was a shame because you have to be very brave to announce yourself alone in this square and stand alone in the sand. A very big role that only the greats can play, whatever the result of the gesture.

Borja Jiménez was received with a great ovation, and in response, he took the cape and began his way to the bullpens to receive the first bull of the afternoon on his knees. And that beginning had a brutal impact: the bull stole his deception in the encounter, turned fiercely looking for his ‘enemy’ and chased the bullfighter violently until crashing into the boards. Fortunately, Jiménez had enough feet to jump over the barrier and reach safety. What a start!

But the thrill of danger quickly faded. That bull was a holy man on the muleta, and after some long and well-drawn naturals, he lay down on the sand (sick, perhaps?) and that was the end of the story. Crippled also second, as invalid as the third.

The situation changed with the fourth, from Cortés’ iron, which Jiménez also received on his knees in the media, and he finished it off with panache with a knee on the ground. He toasted the audience, and on his knees he began to mulete it with rounds very excited by the lines. The nobility and breed of the animal allowed it to be tireless in its attacks, so that a couple of accelerated rounds with the right hand were followed by long, very temperate and beautiful natural ones; but Jiménez failed with the sword and the request did not seem enough to make it through the first ear of the afternoon.

Hope was recovered with El Torero’s hat, fought in fifth place, with which Veronica once again shined. The bull exuded nobility and quality, and the bullfighter took advantage of them with a temperate maneuver in which a pair of tanas with the right hand and another with the left hand stood out, in which excellent naturals emerged. But there was no culmination either; He failed again with the sword. And the sixth was very outcast, and after half past nine at night it was not going to be easy to overcome the fiasco experienced.

Borja Jiménez cannot be denied his dedication, his decision, his honor and professionalism. He received three bulls, first, second and fourth, on his knees, he tried to cap them all with unequal success, he tried to isolate himself from the protests that arose in the stands, and he killed either the invalids or those who were allowed to shine. Bad luck on the one hand, and imperfection on the other. It is clear that the devil is responsible for the traps in Las Ventas.

By the way, the bullfight was In memory of Ignacio Sánchez Mejías, but no one remembered him. Not even a minute of silence. Another fiasco.