Five days after Sunday's livestock mess with time to reflect and, above all, to confirm and compare various data, I will try to sort some of my impressions, very special indeed what happened with Yerbabuena.
If I remember correctly, several days before they officially announced the lineup of the opening, not opening as some have tried to sell us down the drain pulling 119 years of history, and overtook that livestock would be that of Mr. Ortega Cano not many fans giving credit to what I was saying, first because it was supposed to be Miura and secondly because The result of this currency was leaving much to be desired. So, the day of the above presentation, when I saw the sign posted July cattle Gate, my heart leaped with joy, especially because I like the cattle and because Priego, still remember the great bull jabonero, Caesar's name, which will cut Spartacus September 3, 1989 two ears and tail and be in force the new regulation would certainly pardoned. So just out there I got in touch, thanks to my good colleague in the information tasks Salvador Giménez, Julio Gate to visit the Valdivia and do a story about the bulls that would deal in Priego, our move to the farm of the farmer in Seville on Saturday 5 March. Several days before, and started rumors that the corrida de Julio de la Puerta Priego not come back taking the weight of Yerbabuena, something that the company said, curiosities of life in the way back from Osuna to Priego, and was confirmed three days later when he placed the official posters of the celebration.
could not understand, or better, I did not understand what had happened, because the run that was scheduled for July Priego was very good looking, especially several bulls with much rennet and serious, and is also a herd which had the approval of all members of the cartel. Well, not all of all, because apparently, and I say, apparently, the manager of Mr. Rivera began to make trouble. But that's another story.
Anyway, when it was official Yerbabuena livestock that would deal in Priego the reopening celebration of Las Canteras, I set to work to find information of all kinds, for he had come to my attention that several bulls that would be Priego, probably, and I say probably because they were in Montoro last October at the festival which was suspended by rain. So taking data from here, others there and moving Rome to Santiago, we learn which two years left Castilblanco de los Arroyos, namely the farm where the cattle graze the property of Mr. Ortega Cano, a lot of Salamanca eral direction, specifically Matilla of the Sewers, coincidences of life, owned farm seized one of the slickest intervene in Priego, namely Mr. Matilla, that we understand and in the vernacular, so I have learned in recent days, also with his other pursuits is engaged the rearing of wild cattle, and also owned cattle grazing on other farms as Mari Carmen Camacho oh! surprise, and Toros de San Miguel, which is managed livestock court.
Of course, all these were nothing more assumptions until Saturday morning when I was about to witness the landing, I parked on the plaza outside the restored truck that brought the cattle belonged to a company in Salamanca ( Marga García Varas), to be exact with headquarters in the town of Sancti Spiritus, a few miles from the Cabaco, the term in which livestock are located Mr. Matilla, confirming a phone call the number on the door, the animals had left the site and to make matters worse, it was the usual business with the employer-farmer-agent and recriador bravo moved cattle owned cattle.
course, all of a sudden began to tie ropes that confirmed my worst suspicions. The bull fiddle in its purest essence. Animals who left two years ago and returned eral Andalusia as bulls now, as I have confirmed this week officials of the Ministry of Agriculture. The owner of a bull about to rot, which in turn is representative of one of the bullfighters acartelado and to make matters worse, is one of those who run the roost in the Fiesta, has enough power to say what he fights and who he fights, pulled down in Priego such gift, because otherwise, either that or nothing. So the employer, to remain silent and jump through hoops, or otherwise, no more silly soup. By the way, we are still waiting for an official explanation of the change in farming, so we can shuffle the hypothesis or not Fandi liked or did not like Rivera or employer-livestock-guardian and cattle recriador had to put as a run that he had been suspended and he was going to eat potatoes soon. I opted for the latter.
And of course, when they began to go down one truck to one of the supposedly Yerbabuena and Carmen Camacho, as I say, at least owners of the celebration was two years of their lives on land charro, and hats were also a season for those parts, the disappointment was brutal, first by the makings (bulls ugly and rough, uneven than not) and second by the strange behavior of some of them very nervous for the peace I would say there is breathing, both day after being enchiquerados landing as Sunday, so much so that yesterday I could see in the plaza the most damage caused in the pens, some of some consideration.
I do a small section before entering the theme of the horns, to ask if I was checked by the competent authority, I hope so and I believe, the guidelines of these bulls livestock identification and exploitation origin cattle, guidelines should be signed at La Fuente de San Esteban, Salamanca Province, since otherwise we would be talking about a fake and that are already big words. But let
. After the source and the horns came makings. God of my life!. In the past ten years, in which I travel with my camera lie down most places in the province of Jaén occasional few of Granada and other fixed and portable, had not seen a thing. Shaving, if I say so clear, if course or milks, shaving is the most blatant I've seen in my life. I could not believe it I was seeing, and unless the veterinary authority of the celebration and give the recognition that for good. But these people do not have eyes or is that also part of the vicious circle?. Do not they drop their heads in shame when the lords veterinarians in other similar places category pull back an entire run of "apparent lack of fine appearance" or suspicions of manipulation?. And the President, the highest authority in the recognition, said nothing?. Did you find it some pins to those who were missing several centimeters and in some cases (the number 80 was on duty court), were more blunt that arranged for shank?. Have you applied for post mortem analysis of these animals?. No, neither opened his mouth and shut up the most cowardly way possible.
The result we saw all day after the ring. A real shame!, A disgrace to Priego, as well was confirmed a day after most of the criticisms of the festival in a number of media (with the exceptions of the palm as always, to that dance with the ugliest do not like anything at all). Numerous websites and blogs bull's (without wasting any article published on the subject by Salvador Giménez in Córdoba blog Taurine) and even the Union of Bullfighting subscribers and cried to heaven Córdoba and expressed their profound disagreement with what happened in Priego.
And for the fans, after nine years waiting for such a special moment, because they want to tell them. A real slap in the mouth, as many are passing me these days, limited to the deepest of the resignations at what they saw and hopefully will not have negative consequences in future celebrations.
I dare not imagine what he would think of such an aberration, Manuel Brenes, eventually director of Games and Entertainment Board, who witnessed live from Shadow barrier a celebration, which took dyes comedy when one of the matadors were allowed to ask it changed the bull, because according to the above, the animal could not see. Green Pañolazo and keep you up to these cheeky roll.
conclusion to this mess I can only add that in Priego have had occasion to suffer in our own meats a cause, but the main one is doing more damage to the Party: the bull fiddle bull by themselves. That sickening practice that corrupts the essence of this ritual, which cripples the animals shaving it blatantly, replacing farms with no arguments, and most importantly, deceiving the public under their noses, it must stop now. We must unmask it has to be reported and should be severely punished, because otherwise, the snack is loaded in a few years.
So, gentlemen, we are very, very wrong and either put a stop to this, or is anti away with it, thanks to that evil, that cancer will end up destroying everything is in our own house, as shown in Priego.
