The San Isidro Fair offers a wide cultural agenda in the welcome room. Here we talk about bulls at all at all hours, and the mornings are the perfect time for book presentations, such as ‘Bullfighting Legends’, of … Alfonso Santiago. The presentation was carried out by Federico Arnás, which everyone congratulated for the audience success that Telemadrid got in the first run of the cycle.
During his forty chapters he travels different stories of historical bullfighters, between 1910 and the decade of the seventies of the last century, with legends – as indicated by the title – such as Joselito, Belmonte, Gitanillo, Pepe Luis, Miguelín, Aparicio, Litri, Paquirri … Of course, the history of the children of the black Pope could not be missing, so that at the table he was also Miguel, who remembered a family mentioned throughout the 304 pages of the book.
“My uncle (Antonio) dressed in the house of General Mora when he fought in Madrid,” Miguel began to tell: “On one occasion he was waiting for the car, and did not arrive, and did not arrive … so he had to stop a taxi the waiter of swords. When he climbed, the taxi driver asked: ‘Where?’, To which he replied: ‘Al Bernabéu!’ ». The stories that have left the famous house of General Mora …
The famous complaint was also recalled against the shaving, «that the bullfighting system did not forgive him. The bulls were not fixed, three fingers were shaved as for rejones, and that made the bull lose importance, “and, therefore, the bullfighter’s performance, which had an impact on them,” because the fans saw that anyone could do it. ” Before saying it in public, Antonio tried to talk to his teammates, but “the figures ignored him.”
Arnás recalled “The filming is vocations has made in the history of bullfighting”: the videos of Pepín Martín Vázquez of ‘Currito de la Cruz’. “It is one of the most fascinating characters, one of the authentic legends of the book,” Santiago explained about an unfairly forgotten bullfighter for decades, and who begins to claim in recent times. He was able to transcend, despite being just over an active five years. “What would have happened if I had not taken a bull giving a natural in Valdepeñas?” The speakers wondered. There ended his career, but his bullfighting and naturalness are not forgotten.
This afternoon says about Seville the last two -dynasty bullfighter such as Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez. He will do it with a dress that will honor his great -grandfather, El Niño de la Palma, who this year is one hundred years of his alternative. “His best legacy has been to leave Antonio Ordóñez,” Federico said. Therefore, this afternoon there are runs in Las Ventas and La Maestranza, as happened on October 12, 1953, historical date because, both in the Corrida del Montepío Madrid, and the one that was made for the benefit of the Red Cross in the Hispanic city, the list came out on the shoulders. Six bullfighters in the two most important places. It had never passed, although today it can happen again … you never know. What is known is that that afternoon “the tradition is established for bullfighters to go out through the prince’s door.”
Continuing the historical line, the mention of the Cordoba could not be missing. The son of Ángel Luis Welcome told a funny anecdote between his uncle and Benítez: “There was always spoken among the bullfighters on the left of the Cordoba, but threw through another more heterodox bullfighting line.” So, on one occasion, “my uncle Antonio said: ‘Manuel, to see if you hit two batches without getting hooked,’ to chop him. He gave two extraordinary series, and replied: ‘Now I’m going to mine, to win what they pay me and not what they give you,’ ”he said between laughs.
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