Dax Fair 2025: Luque attentive, late start and Marco Perez scouting in our echoes from the bullfight callejon on Wednesday, August 13

Six bulls from Victoriano del Rio for Sébastien Castella (silence and applause), Daniel Luque (one ear and applause) and Pablo Aguado (silence and applause)

The start of this first bullfight of the Dax Fair was five minutes late. The presidency, formed by Franck Lanati, Julie Delos, and Benoît Dassé, apparently encountered traffic jams between the patio of the cuadrillas—where they had come to greet the cartel's bullfighters—and their seats, where they sat down at 6:03 p.m.

In their defense, the two points are diametrically opposed in an arena where the crowd of the big days had gathered.

Arriving in Dax on the eve of the first of his two bullfights at this fair, Daniel Luque and his entourage had a great time in the corrals at the end of the morning on Wednesday, August 13.

After observing Victoriano del Río's lot, then taking a closer look at the two bulls he will have to fight, the matador killed two birds with one stone. After the day's work was done, Luque extended his visit around the corral where El Freixo's cattle are kept, as if he were trying to guess the characters of these bulls he will face for the fourth bullfight of the Dax festivities, this Saturday, August 16.

Sebastien Castella didn't miss a beat: before the day's bullfight finally began, the mayor of Dax, Julien Dubois, presented him, along with his deputy Pascal Dagès and the president of the bullfighting commission, Eric Darrière, with the City Medal, to recognize his career and his 25 years of alternative sports.

"One of the greatest French bullfighters" received the gift with humility, before toasting his first bull to Éric Darrière.

Amarie's glass embroidery can be seen in the lobby of the Splendid Hotel during the 2025 Dax Fair. Her works, on bottles and vases, are inspired by the motifs on the costumes of light worn by bullfighters in the arena. Recomposed stitch by stitch, drop by drop, the embroidery has a magnetic power over those who view it. An invitation to a motionless journey.

Marco Perez was spotted in the callejon of the Dax bullring for the bullfight on Wednesday, August 13. The young prodigy from Salamanca, who recently became a matador, was accompanied by his attorney, Jean-Baptiste Jalabert.

Seated among the members of the Bullfighting Commission, they will certainly have had the opportunity to begin discussing a possible presentation of Marco Perez in Dax during the 2026 season.

More fear than harm for Aguado banderillero Sanchez Aurajo, on Daniel Luque's first bull, Misigato. While he was supposed to cut off the bull after the banderillas, it was the bull that cut him off, a few meters from the boards, and from Daniel Luque who was drinking, silver cup in hand.

Stung in the thigh, jostled between the horns and the burladero, he was finally pulled away from the pitons, pulled by the shoulders by his colleagues. Grimacing, he had his suit sewn up in the callejon, before heading back out onto the track.