Word: picadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old, when the ranch held its tienta (test) for the young bulls, Gitano astounded the company with his fighting qualities: he knocked the picador's horse sprawling and gored one of the capemen. The boy was proud, but he was sad too. In two years Gitano would be sent to the corrida to be artistically butchered for the pleasure of the public...
Humor of this sort seldom shakes the belly. Instead it shakes the mind, working on it like a picador on a bull...
...Spasm of Pride. Humming with pain, Pacote goes back into the ring to fight his farewell bull. But the picador and banderilleros have not only slowed the animal (as they are supposed to), but stopped him. The bull refuses to follow the cape. Pacote thrusts in the killing sword, knowing it is only a dismal formality...
...than 7 points. But in the final hour of the second day, the market suddenly reversed itself and started up. At week's end the average was still 5.06 points below the 1950 high of 201.98. But traders thought that the bull had merely been pricked by the picador, and was a long way from the kill...