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It is a traditional event in Pakistan where farmers participate in a dangerous Race speeding down a track
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It is a traditional event in Pakistan where farmers participate in a dangerous Race speeding down a track
Just riding weak bulls?
Western bulls are much more sturdier and we fight the bulls head on.
Spanish matador, 16, takes on 6 bulls
Matador Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso gets ready to kill a bull during a bullfight in Caceres, Spain. (MIGUEL ANGEL MORENATTI / AP)
Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso is seen before a bullfight in Caceres, Spain. Jairo Miguel, a 16-year-old Spanish matador, killed six bulls, pulling off a feat normally attempted only by seasoned veterans and winning trophies for his bravery, the ears from animals he had just slain. (MIGUEL ANGEL MORENATTI / AP)
Matador Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso makes a pass during a bullfight in Caceres, Spain. (MIGUEL ANGEL MORENATTI /AP)
Matador Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso makes a pass during a bullfight in Caceres, Spain. (MIGUEL ANGEL MORENATTI /AP)
Matador Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso gets ready to kill a bull during a bullfight in Caceres, Spain. (MIGUEL ANGEL MORENATTI / AP)
Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso is seen before a bullfight in Caceres, Spain. Jairo Miguel, a 16-year-old Spanish matador, killed six bulls, pulling off a feat normally attempted only by seasoned veterans and winning trophies for his bravery, the ears from animals he had just slain. (MIGUEL ANGEL ORENATTI / AP)
By DANIEL WOOLLSThe Associated Press
Sat., Feb. 6, 2010
CACERES-A 16-year-old Spanish matador set about Saturday to kill six fighting bulls in one afternoon, a dangerous feat usually attempted only by seasoned veterans.
After approximately 50 minutes Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso successfully slew his first bull, a black beast weighing 450 kilograms (990 pounds) and a second one, a muscular, fast and agile chocolate-brown animal.
Wearing a sparkling white suit of lights with gold sequins that twinkled in the late afternoon sun the young toreador was greeted by a two-thirds full 5,000-seater bullring.
Minutes before the fight started he and his former bullfighter father hugged in the alley leading to the bullring and cried in an emotional scene.
This type of drama, which pits a debutante young matador against six ferocious bulls, happens every now and then when a bullfighter feels brave enough to risk his life to show his courage. Once a fighter reaches the minimum legal age of 16, it is not considered controversial in Spain.
The crowd was appreciative but not rapturous as he faced the animals while a six-man taurine band played traditional paso doble tunes.
Jairo Miguel was fighting the bulls in his hometown of Caceres, in Spain’s southwestern Extremadura region.
The average age for matadors in Spain is 25 to 30 and Jairo Miguel spent around four years fighting in Latin America to escape the strict age limit.
The normal format for a bullfight is three matadors taking on two animals each. Aficionados say it is extremely rare for a matador as young as 16 to fight six, a challenge requiring great physical and mental stamina.
In an interview the night before the big fight, Jairo Miguel said he was nervous but confident in his skills. A tall, slender boy with a baby face and a nice smile, he bears a scar from a ghastly goring that nearly punctured his heart in Mexico in 2007.
He got started at age 6, locking horns with a young cow.
“Ever since I was very small I have had this in my genes,” he told The Associated Press. “I have practically grown up with bulls.”
Juan Belmonte, a bullfighting critic for Canal Sur television in Seville, said Jairo Miguel is largely untested but a promising matador.
“Imagine a class of first-graders. There is always one that stands out. That is Jairo Miguel,” he said.
Belmonte said that of the 800-odd bullfighters active in Spain, just a handful took on six of the 500-600-kilogram (1,100-1,300-pound) beasts at age 16.
One of them was Julian Lopez, who did it in 1998 and is now one of Spain’s top bullfighters. He did it in Madrid’s storied and very demanding Las Ventas ring, bullfighting’s equivalent of Madison Square Garden. He won top honours, being carried out of the ring on fans’ shoulders and claiming two trophies — ears from bulls he had just slain.
Jairo Miguel’s setting is much less grandiose: a smallish, second-category ring in a preseason charity event to benefit children with autism.
His mother, Celia Alonso, said she chain-smokes in the days leading up to one of her son’s fights, cannot sleep even with tranquilizers and would prefer he do anything but this — “football, computers, whatever.”
“But he has chosen this and I have to support him,” Alonso said. “All I know is what his eyes say when he struts out into the ring.”
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2010/02/06/spanish_matador_16_takes_on_6_bulls.html
They are under nourished bulls like their under nourished people in these 3rd world countries.
PS: I am not an Indian
I can see the Indian jealousy you have about cultural events in Pakistan but they are not weak bulls instead they have been breed to run very fast.
Nope they are not under nourished they are athletic and speedy.
This is an over fed bull in Pakistan now can he race?
It is just like horse racing get rid of it first.we should get rid of such animalistic pleasure and cruelty towards animals .
It is just like horse racing get rid of it first.
my dear don't be so cruel to the animal which have fed you from centuries , bulls are not for racing , you can go for horse racing .
Bulls are god in India my friend and we respect it but they are food in Pakistan and you should also respect that.
Cruelty is what happens in Spain this is race.no bulls are not god ,
we are talking about cruelty towards animals . pl be serious
jaisi apki marziCruelty is what happens in Spain this is race.
bull fighting in spain is nothing but absolute non sense and cruel. no sane mind will ever support such a sport. it is for crazy people only. killing the animal at the end. its cruel. they also have other foolish games in which those idiots run in front of bulls. rubbish and i am glad such types of foolish games are not played in majority of the areas of pak. in some areas of fata a foolish game call buzkashi is played but it is not popular in rest of the country.Just riding weak bulls?
Western bulls are much more sturdier and we fight the bulls head on.
Spanish matador, 16, takes on 6 bulls
Matador Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso gets ready to kill a bull during a bullfight in Caceres, Spain. (MIGUEL ANGEL MORENATTI / AP)
Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso is seen before a bullfight in Caceres, Spain. Jairo Miguel, a 16-year-old Spanish matador, killed six bulls, pulling off a feat normally attempted only by seasoned veterans and winning trophies for his bravery, the ears from animals he had just slain. (MIGUEL ANGEL MORENATTI / AP)
Matador Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso makes a pass during a bullfight in Caceres, Spain. (MIGUEL ANGEL MORENATTI /AP)
Matador Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso makes a pass during a bullfight in Caceres, Spain. (MIGUEL ANGEL MORENATTI /AP)
Matador Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso gets ready to kill a bull during a bullfight in Caceres, Spain. (MIGUEL ANGEL MORENATTI / AP)
Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso is seen before a bullfight in Caceres, Spain. Jairo Miguel, a 16-year-old Spanish matador, killed six bulls, pulling off a feat normally attempted only by seasoned veterans and winning trophies for his bravery, the ears from animals he had just slain. (MIGUEL ANGEL ORENATTI / AP)
By DANIEL WOOLLSThe Associated Press
Sat., Feb. 6, 2010
CACERES-A 16-year-old Spanish matador set about Saturday to kill six fighting bulls in one afternoon, a dangerous feat usually attempted only by seasoned veterans.
After approximately 50 minutes Jairo Miguel Sanchez Alonso successfully slew his first bull, a black beast weighing 450 kilograms (990 pounds) and a second one, a muscular, fast and agile chocolate-brown animal.
Wearing a sparkling white suit of lights with gold sequins that twinkled in the late afternoon sun the young toreador was greeted by a two-thirds full 5,000-seater bullring.
Minutes before the fight started he and his former bullfighter father hugged in the alley leading to the bullring and cried in an emotional scene.
This type of drama, which pits a debutante young matador against six ferocious bulls, happens every now and then when a bullfighter feels brave enough to risk his life to show his courage. Once a fighter reaches the minimum legal age of 16, it is not considered controversial in Spain.
The crowd was appreciative but not rapturous as he faced the animals while a six-man taurine band played traditional paso doble tunes.
Jairo Miguel was fighting the bulls in his hometown of Caceres, in Spain’s southwestern Extremadura region.
The average age for matadors in Spain is 25 to 30 and Jairo Miguel spent around four years fighting in Latin America to escape the strict age limit.
The normal format for a bullfight is three matadors taking on two animals each. Aficionados say it is extremely rare for a matador as young as 16 to fight six, a challenge requiring great physical and mental stamina.
In an interview the night before the big fight, Jairo Miguel said he was nervous but confident in his skills. A tall, slender boy with a baby face and a nice smile, he bears a scar from a ghastly goring that nearly punctured his heart in Mexico in 2007.
He got started at age 6, locking horns with a young cow.
“Ever since I was very small I have had this in my genes,” he told The Associated Press. “I have practically grown up with bulls.”
Juan Belmonte, a bullfighting critic for Canal Sur television in Seville, said Jairo Miguel is largely untested but a promising matador.
“Imagine a class of first-graders. There is always one that stands out. That is Jairo Miguel,” he said.
Belmonte said that of the 800-odd bullfighters active in Spain, just a handful took on six of the 500-600-kilogram (1,100-1,300-pound) beasts at age 16.
One of them was Julian Lopez, who did it in 1998 and is now one of Spain’s top bullfighters. He did it in Madrid’s storied and very demanding Las Ventas ring, bullfighting’s equivalent of Madison Square Garden. He won top honours, being carried out of the ring on fans’ shoulders and claiming two trophies — ears from bulls he had just slain.
Jairo Miguel’s setting is much less grandiose: a smallish, second-category ring in a preseason charity event to benefit children with autism.
His mother, Celia Alonso, said she chain-smokes in the days leading up to one of her son’s fights, cannot sleep even with tranquilizers and would prefer he do anything but this — “football, computers, whatever.”
“But he has chosen this and I have to support him,” Alonso said. “All I know is what his eyes say when he struts out into the ring.”
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2010/02/06/spanish_matador_16_takes_on_6_bulls.html
bull fighting in spain is nothing but absolute non sense and cruel. no sane mind will ever support such a sport. it is for crazy people only. killing the animal at the end. its cruel. they also have other foolish games in which those idiots run in front of bulls. rubbish and i am glad such types of foolish games are not played in majority of the areas of pak. in some areas of fata a foolish game call buzkashi is played but it is not popular in rest of the country.
now i am sure you will post some pics from pakistanis involved in some crazy sports like cock fighting, dog fighting but such games are not very popular and majority doesn't like to be part of such sports.