Word: picador
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...cuadrilla there are positions to be won. First, that of the picador who, dressed in chain-mail up to the waist, has but to goad the bull with a sharpened lance, keeping his horse's blind-folded eye toward the beast until it charges, gores the horse, and gives the picador time to be dragged over the arena's paling...
Some heroes court the danger even more daringly. Antonio Montes, who was killed in 1907, let the bull come to him for the coup de grace. Captain Canedo, who is still alive, kills a! rejon ?that is, he rides first as a picador, then dismounts and finishes his job as an espada. And there is Gaona, of Mexico,* who fights without a muleta, relying solely upon the suppleness of his hips to elude the bull's furious charge. It is Gaona's boast that the horns seldom miss him by so much as the breadth of a finger...