San Isidro Fair: Bullfighting competition in quites | Culture

The third of quits that was held during the fight of the second bull already appears on the frontispiece of this Isidril fair. Surprising, on the one hand, because it is not common for two bullfighters to engage in a brave duel in a time of kisses and hugs, and I’m sorry if I’ve bothered you, maestro; and very bullfighting because it was full of bravery, variety and elegance on the part of the two bullfighters.

It all started when Víctor Hernández went ahead of the media to intervene in David de Miranda’s first bull, and he showed off with some saltilleras that put a lump in the throat of more than one due to the greed of the bull, the quote from afar and the tightness of the encounter. His partner responded with some tight chicuelinas and a long burst of flavor. When it seemed that the duel was ending there, Hernández asked De Miranda for permission to return to the face of the bull and drew a quit by tafalleras, and his partner, stung by his self-esteem, responded with some gaoneras that ended up bringing the audience to its feet, captivated by the tremendous emotion that had arisen in the ring. The two bullfighters shook hands, and there was a very bullfighting sequence for the annals of this and many fairs.

Next, the Huelva bullfighter took the muleta and gave a lecture on the importance of courage in bullfighting. It began with some very tight statuary, followed by three rounds of unequal rounds due to the animal’s tendency to release its face at the end of the muletazos. Until then, the bull’s greed and the bullfighter’s total dedication prevailed. The task did not reach higher levels because the animal was exhausted, which did not prevent some final bernadines, once again crossing the line of imminent danger. He killed badly, with a low thrust, despite which he got an earful of protest from the public. In the fifth, Víctor del Pozo showed off in banderillas, but not De Miranda because the bull was tired and timid, with no disposition for the fight.

Víctor Hernández looks like he dresses up to make a splash, to be someone important in this profession, and he tries to demonstrate it at all times. It has value beyond any doubt, it settles the shoes, it is located in the right terrain and it connects quickly with the lines. He does not forgive a bit, and forgets the body in front of the bull. A bullfighter like this is called to succeed. He didn’t succeed in his first one, a soft and bland bull, graceless and colorless, with which he could only be clean. And neither in the sixth, an animal with more mobility and greed, despite its tremendous effort. Perhaps he was betrayed by the desperate search for victory at all costs, and all his work lacked the rest and command demanded by his opponent. In the end, everything seemed very accelerated, like a sigh impossible to savor. I hope it is nothing more than the rush of youth, because he has plenty of wood to become a great bullfighter.

Finally, it is impossible to know at this point what the medium-term future will be for Fortes, a bullfighter who has already been active for 15 years and who until now has had a career dotted with very serious mishaps that nipped in the bud his firm conditions for stardom. But, recovered, mature, and with clear ideas, he presents himself as a man scented with bullfighting that spreads throughout the plaza from the moment he sets foot in the ring. It is the way of walking in the face of the bull, the elegance and solemnity that comes from his way of fighting, it is his determined determination to pursue purity.

Today he has not triumphed because he got involved with his second bull, with a dull behavior, in a heavy and endless work, and because he has not yet learned to kill, a fundamental subject in this profession, but he has left a bullfighter’s smell that has been impregnated in the lines.

All this happened in the bull that opened the bullring, noble and with a fine thread of life, which did not prevent him from leaving expensive flashes of good bullfighting at the bottom at the beginning of the work with the muleta and with both hands afterwards; especially, with the left, with which he drew three superb naturals, long, deep, beautiful, very temperate, which made Las Ventas’s skin crawl. There was the expression of pure bullfighting of a man called to great goals that, due to bad luck, his own limitations and mishaps, he did not quite achieve.