The third bullfight of the September Fair heralded, twenty years later, a bullfight by Victorino Martín, the star ranch of the Cabaña Brava, in a one-on-one between two specialists, Rafaelillo and Antonio Ferrera. Poster for fans that should have gathered more public in the lines of La Condomina. The Albaserrada encaste bullfight was hard and complicated, without any bull that finished breaking and moving below, and that allowed the bullfighting to take place. Of course, in terms of presentation it was impeccable.
Astifino was the first, a bull that came loose and picked up Rafaelillo with skill, in sets lengthening the trip, with his knee bent, slashing the bull in the last one. ‘Pachunqueño’, which was the name of the dark-haired black man, unhorsed the picador and with the pikeman once again mounted, he promptly tore off in the second punch. First bull of two punches of the fair. He gave the public Rafaelillo, who was returning to his bullring after not fighting in Murcia since 2018.
The celebration
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Bullring of Murcia.
Bullfight. Fourth subscription celebration. Less than half an entry. Six Victorino Martín bulls, impeccable presentation. Complicated bullfight, no bull finished breaking forward. -
Rafaelillo (of grana and gold):
Silence after warning, ear and ear with a strong request for the second and two laps around the ring. -
Antonio Ferrera (in white and gold):
Return to the ring after request, ear and ear.
It was a very short charging bull at the beginning of the task, which he replaced and soon stirred. The bullfighter went out to the second line and there he planted his shoes and linked four consecutive blows, the last ones to the chest, losing his footing and being at the mercy of the bull. Fortunately, he was able to escape. The next batch, round, had much merit, with the right-hander from Murcia pulling the animal to lengthen the attacks. He understood Rafaelillo al albaserrada, in a work of attitude and, quoting very crossed, he was giving time to the victorino to get the drinking he had. Without help, he ended up fighting naturally with his right hand and, with the situation under control, he closed the first act with a rude knee on the ground caressing the head of the beef. Six bone pricks, pointing up – he didn’t get relief from any of them – caused him to lose the trophy. Silence for the bullfighter and division of opinions in drag for the bull.
Before greeting the first of his lot, Antonio Ferrera had appeared, wearing a green cape, in a fight against the first Rafaelillo bull. That second of the afternoon he was received with applause from the public, in recognition of his rags. He made a place for the victorino, who was greeted by the man from Extremadura with a green cape that he skillfully handled to get the horned man out of the media with showy sets on the feet, typical of older bullfighting. He put the animal’s luck from a distance, which was quickly dragged off the horse. He came out of the punch folding his hands and the matador asked for the change. Ferrera’s toast was for his friend Rafaelillo.
book volley
Ferrera, a specialist with this iron, soon saw the conditions of the bull, which at first seemed to move on the crutch. He took it long on a right set and smartly missed steps to close with the chest. He took his left foot and that’s where the Victorian showed the danger. The bullfighter did not care that, after fastening the batch, he returned to the right python signing a series of great character, resolved with a fanning to the face. Without a sword, he continued to fight on the same side and the square roared in a change of hand. More closed in the third came a batch, also without a sword, more snatched. The volapié was a book, but the entire sword was not enough. He had to go crazy, he hit the second blow. There was an ear request, but the president did not understand the majority. He finished this second pass with a standing ovation for the bull and back to the ring for the bullfighter, who had to give it by acclamation.
This hand-in-hand of two specialists, a poster for fans, should have gathered more public on the lines of the square
Veleto and loose of meat was the third, which rammed like a fireball into Rafaelillo’s cape, which was pressed inwards in the greeting, which included the long change and vibrant speedwells.
In the passage through the mounts the stick fell very far back. At the exit of the puyazo the Murcian signed a remove with two chicuelinas and an extraordinary average. He put the burel away and again joyfully rode on horseback. Rafaelillo toasted Dr. Robles.
Victorino had an engine, a demanding bull. Delivery task was that of Rafaelillo, who in a first series with the left sent from below. In the next one, with his right hand, well placed to cite, he firmly endured the attacks and, already with the bull shortening the trips, the Murcian was brave, who ended up facing the horn in the rudeness of his knees. This time the sword entered almost completely, the bull turned quickly and Rafaelillo walked the first ear of the afternoon.
He finished off the room in the burladeros, removing splinters from the boards. He was a saddled bull, who was not seen in the cape. He prescribed a great punch José María López. With aprons in step he took Antonio away from the beef, asking for the change of third with a single stick. He did not toast, and with three passes he took the bull to the third to fight the natural with good forms. After two rounds with his left foot, in which the bull moved without finishing breaking, he charged at the step and more asleep on the right, so Ferrera returned to the left foot to draw well-billed naturals, some of them exquisitely smooth, fighting very slow. He killed with a deep jab and a full lunge, enough to earn him the ear. The horned was applauded in drag.
The fifth was applauded when he stepped on the albero, very offensive ahead. He received him with two long changes from Rafaelillo, who stood up and signed a vibrant greeting through aprons, with the bull squeezing inside. He provided the Murcian to Antonio Ferrera. Rafaelillo risked in a beginning of knees, next to boards. He was very real in the first round, and on the third muletazo the victorino marked him with the cane to the thigh.
an impossible
From there the task was a give and take. Rafaelillo risked his life without cheating or cardboard before a bull that shortened the attacks and chased to catch the auctions. A garment, before which Rafaelillo not only put on, but he did it to fight well, quite an impossibility. Even so, he stole muletazos composing the figure, giving the distance, one by one, of enormous merit. He didn’t allow himself to be given a chest pass by the horned man, who in those round ends he had the bullfighter as measured as a tailor. Task that can be defined with the phrase of Carlos Alcaraz’s grandfather: “Head, heart and co…”. He shot the bull without lace from an almost complete one, the president took a long time to grant the ear, he asked for the second, and he did not want to give it. A mistake. Not everything in bullfighting is giving nice passes, it is also an amateur to value the effort, dedication, courage and ability of a bullfighter to excite before a bull that wanted to take his head. He had to go around the ring twice, with his ear, which only he knows what it cost him, kept in his vest.
Ferrera came out in the sixth to win the big door. On the way out, he dealt with a low bull with solvency, but he wore two perches, which, like the whole bullfight, did not give anything away, without finishing passing, but without the roughness of the previous one. Ferrera signed, with such material, natural with a good line, with artistic content, in a well-structured work within the complications of the res. A puncture and a lunge that he appeared was not an obstacle for the public to ask for the ear. He wanted to see the two heroes on their shoulders.
Afternoon of many returns
The bullfight for the 135th anniversary of the La Condomina bullring had many attractions, and thus, with that desire to live the party in a big way, many fans took part in the celebration. Rafaelillo’s return to bullfighting in the bullring where he took the alternative in 1996 as a kid, and, above all, after the tremendous takeover of Pamplona and the pandemic. The reunion, after 20 years, with a ‘top’ ranch like Victorino, who, as the rancher and president of the Fundación Toro de Lidia said in LA TRUTH, “hopefully now I’ll spend 20 years in a row coming.” And the return to Murcia of Antonio Ferrera was also celebrated, “a brother” for Rafaelillo, who, while convalescing in Navarra, appeared in the hospital room and did not leave his side until he was discharged. Many reasons to enjoy the third bullfight of the Murcian cycle, to return to see the burladeros with hearts in their fists and to see those mythical Victorino horns compete with the two right-handers. Murcia, with the national holiday, one more year.
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