Dax 2025 Feria Bullfight: Trophies don't matter, as long as you get high

The three bullfighters were carried in triumph through the main gate of the Dax arena, after each being rewarded with three ears from their bulls from El Freixo.

Miguel Ángel Perera (raspberry and gold): 1 ear with 2 laps and 2 ears. Daniel Luque (chocolate and gold): 2 ears and 1 ear. Borja Jimenez (champagne and gold): 1 ear and 2 ears.

Six bulls from El Freixo, weighing between 509 and 540 kilos (average 523 kilos) and pricked 13 times, from a careful presentation of this breeding in the arenas of Dax, with complementary sizes – from the discreet ^2nd to the respectable ^6th – and a caste conducive to success. The ^3rd bull, named Alejado, was awarded a posthumous lap of the ring as a reward for his bravery. Music and salute for the picador Tito Sandoval and the horse Ulysse after the three encounters, including two pikes, of this same bull.

"Juli, Juli." The audience at the Dax bullring chanted the name of the bullring of Julián López Escobar, the successful ganadero of El Freixo. After attending, alongside one of his sons, the first bullfight of his breeding presented for the Dax fair, this Saturday, August 16, the retired figura slipped away from the allejon without saying a word.

He has set a date. He leaves the triumph to his mayoral and the three bullfighters who are preparing to be carried in triumph through the Great Gate of the Dax bullring. Miguel Angel Perera (raspberry and gold) and Daniel Luque (chocolate and gold) exchange a hug. The latter had done the same after being awarded the two ears of his first bull fought.

Miguel Ángel Perera had to wait until the fourth bull to obtain this assurance of a triumphant exit. As a good friend who knows perfectly well the behavior of the bulls raised by the one who was his bullring companion for years, Perera had nevertheless performed a large-scale opening faena, which began in the center of the ring, on his knees, but ended with a slightly dropped thrust.

A major outcry addressed to the presidency formed around Matthieu Lassalle. The story could have ended there. Except that this same palco then awarded this double trophy to Luque, author of a contrary sword finishing a faena linked with small onions.

Faced with this distinction, which fueled the conversations immediately after the Dax race, one would be tempted to posit as a moral that the number of trophies doesn't matter, as long as one has the intoxication. If the technical precision of the two stars allowed them to make their opponents do loops worthy of a fairground ride, Borja Jimenez (champagne and gold) for his part succeeded in his presentation as a matador de toros at the Dax feria.

Beyond his two portas gayolas to welcome his two bulls from El Freixo, the Espartinas bullfighter performed an intense faena against his first opponent. In the sixth, as the Great Gate began to creak, Jimenez took advantage of the animal's kindness and mobility to deliver long-distance muletazos, feet together and a much more vertical body than in the previous one. Like his two other companions previously, he then thrust him with the first blow. A six out of six that has become rare in bullfighting.

Arenas full, the heat wave was there.