San Miguel Fair: Triumphalistic Puerta del Príncipe for Talavante | Culture

Triumphalism in vein; That is what was experienced in La Maestranza in the first bullfight of the San Miguel Fair. A very fair, very comfortable and very noble bullfight by Victoriano del Río and an extremely generous public led to Alejandro Talavante’s exit on his shoulders through the Puerta del Príncipe after the cutting of two ears from his first bull, named Dalia, of supreme class , and a third to another noble animal after an uneven task.

This Dalia has been a dream bull for a bullfighter with feeling in his wrists. Right from the presence, he stood up on the first rod and headed on the second, went long on banderillas, and demonstrated promptness, fixity, class, gentleness and mobility in the muleta, in the same way that he lacked vibration, power and the greed typical of a real brave bull. And Talavante, who is no longer the deep bullfighter of yesteryear, muleted him softly and long in several rounds that aroused the enthusiasm of the respectable, although it was not clear at any time if due to the bullfighter’s paint or the fixity and humiliation of the bull.

There were quality naturals, changes of hands of depth and generosity of the bull and the tendidos. After a faulty thrust, the president took out three handkerchiefs: the two ears that Talavante did not deserve and the return to the ring to a bull that was not brave on the horse. The bullfighter was more focused against the fifth, of less class than his brother, but with enough qualities for victory. Talavante, with the Puerta del Príncipe in his head, outlined loose muletazos of quality without rounding off a prize-winning work. But La Maestranza was determined to open its front door and the bullfighter from Extremadura went out through it for the second time in his career.

The fight of the first bull reflected in detail the moment of the Sevillian fans. An animal with a mature appearance but with the face and shape of a bull, inappropriate, even, for a celebration with picadors in a first-class plaza. He rode the horse and the pikeman was applauded for not biting. And in the muleta he was a stupid, generous and dull opponent. His matador, Sebastián Castella, showed himself to be more of a bullfighter in the beginning than in the finishes, in an extra effort unless it did not prevent him from walking the first ear of the afternoon. He received it in a cloak with one knee on the ground, a pair of aprons and three tasteful stockings. José Chacón excelled in banderillas, and in the final third, the matador once again aroused illusions that did not fully materialize. Initial statuary, a trench and a chest pass gave way to a task that amounted to very little. Faced with an excellent bull for today’s bullfighting, Castella achieved his best moments with his right hand, and seemed to deflate with his left hand even though the animal continued to charge with the same gentleness. And the final painting was dull, soulless, a logical result between a simply noble bull and a bullfighter without charm. The fourth was the most uncomfortable, and the French right-hander was there without any trace.

And the bullfighter who was really good, very brave, powerful, technically perfect, was Daniel Luque, who offered a whole lesson in authentic bullfighting to the third in the afternoon, with less mobility, who had a hard time obeying the deceptions and let his face loose. in each bid. Without any fuss, Luque X-rayed it, positioned himself on the appropriate ground, met at the right distance, and hooked the audience with a real, captivating and passionate bullfight. When the animal refused to charge, amount on top of his opponent, in a display of total authority, and lifted the prone.

He could only be clean and solvent with the esborio sixth that did not allow him any show.

Talavante left on his shoulders through the Puerta del Príncipe, but Seville did not leave La Maestranza bullfighting.