Word: tienta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the jeeps came through the gate, the bull glared suspiciously and trotted off across the wide pasture of Mexico's La Punta, the world's biggest ranch for raising toros bravos (brave bulls). The jeeps bounced after him in hot pursuit. They were out on a tienta, a test of fighting quality (with modern trimmings), on which all things at La Punta depend...
...calves, vaqueros carefully note the mother's number-branded in foot-high figures on her side-for entry in the register. Then the calf, itself numbered and registered, is turned loose to roam. At the age of 18 months, fighting bulls are rounded up for the all-important tienta. It is the only trial they get before entering a ring. If they got any more, the bulls, diabolically quick to learn, would have a fatal advantage over a bullfighter. Even in a tienta, young bulls are allowed to make no more than three or four charges at the picador...
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