Miura closed a memorable fair in April 2023. Engraved on fire with the name of Morante de la Puebla, things have not ceased to happen day after day. Rare was the afternoon without something to put in your mouth, with an exceptional livestock level. "La Feria", with capital letters, as Ramón Valencia baptized it, has really been. The recovery in general lines of the cuatreño and the expensive works. There is no room on a podium for the bulls of excellence, who accumulated up to four laps of the ring in the drag: Ligerito, by Domingo Hernández [the legal congratulations for Concha Hernández; the moral congratulations for her brother Justo]; Patatero, by Victorino Martín; Príncipe, from El Parralejo; and Philosopher, by Matilla, that if we speak strictly of bravery, without other virtuous connotations, it goes off the map. And the list could go on long with bulls of note without blue handkerchief.

To the payroll came to join Choricero, a miura cardene dotted, serious but fine, with that sheet that the grays have fixed in the legendary livestock, a morphology in downhill for such tall bulls. And, more importantly, with a capacity to humiliate. That in this case was accompanied by a frank bravery, an important engine, a delivery to the limits of Miura. That plus that is never forgotten even in the most notable onslaught.

Manuel Escribano, who returned with the glory still fresh, reissued his success with absolute emphaticness. From beginning to end. From the greeting to porta gayola -of chill the espara-, through a vibrant bullfighting to the veronica to a round task, pluscuamperfecta by the two hands. Embedded, long in the stroke, powerful with so much power. From the pendulum opening for changed to the farewell round, everything went along the path of emotion, which pours the authentic. Too bad that the sword, despite being thrown straight like a sail, sank by the soft. The box rejected the request for the second ear; The one granted gave off a capital weight. Almost two. In each of the thirds – also in banderillas – Escribano had given himself body and soul.

So far, the three miuras dealt with in this new hangover Monday had been worthless. Hand in hand for El Fandi's discharge, Antonio Ferrera and Manuel Escribano had been dispatching them with impeccable professionalism.

Ferrera had met a formidable Miureño, a train, to open a square. Their supposed joy in capes quickly transformed into a not passing on the crutch, the normal thing in them when it comes to serious ramming. Not once did he pick up or push once the inertia of the previous thirds was lost. AF resolved with the trade of the years.

Escribano had in his hands the lightest bull of the imposing miura, the first cinqueño of a batch of three, which was completed with fifth and sixth. This second moved with a winder on his head, always either by the slave or by the toothpick, without malice. The agility of the beast against the security of the Sevillian, who understood the height perfectly. Understanding without show, impossible to say anything. Seasoned professionalism.

The third cardenum was adorned with an obvious lack of power, approachable by the right and without a pass by the left. Antonio Ferrera took out what he had and killed him with commendable forcefulness (after a puncture). That attack of the volapié to law was reproduced again by the fifty-fifth, of stunning trapío. The portentous machinery of the Miureño lacked the power due to promote what seemed good intention. There was no case or cause with such trembling support. Nor was it sustained, and a fall at the beginning of the work ended up sentencing him. De AF was the most thankless lot. To his credit were the winged and brief interventions in quites with his blue cape.

The last afternoon of the fair was closed by Manuel Escribano again at the door of bullrings, again to the veronica -a lance looking at the laying- with the square standing. The bull was employed in bravo on the horse like all the bullfight, was sometimes unruly and, later, obedient even bland. The bullfighter did everything with aplomb, what was required and precise at all times, closing a fair, his own, also for the memory.

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Plaza de la Maestranza. Monday, May 1, 2023. Last of the fair. Less than three-quarters of an entrance. Bulls of Miura, three cinqueños -2nd, 5th and 6th-; serious in their different workmanships; Important the 4th within a cheerful set in the horse and lackluster in the other thirds.

ANTONIO FERRERA, scarlet and gold. Detached lunge (silence); in the third, puncture and lunge (silence); in the sixth, lunge (silence).

MANUEL ESCRIBANO, in bottle green and gold. Lunge fall and two hairless (silence); in the fourth, low lunge (ear and strong request of the second); In the sixth, last lunge and corner (greetings).

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