Ganadería

Ganadería (of Spanish: “breeding”) indicates the breeding from which the bulls come from Corrida ( Toros of lidia ). The stockbreeder bears as for him the name of ganadero .

Presentation

The stockbreeder is represented during the race by his Mayoral (manager or intendant). When the batch of bulls was exceptional, one sees sometimes the mayoral carried has hombros to honor his breeding.

The price of a fighting bull (which includes/understands its transport to the arenas) varies according to the size and the origin, but it is considered that it varies between a few thousands of euros for a Novillo and several tens of thousands of euros for most famous.

Ganaderías

Among the most known ganaderías one can quote:

Miura

The bulls of this ganadería of Miura are generally regarded as most dangerous, most impetuous and most combative (they are also animals traditionally very high on legs what in fact of the adversaries difficult to control). This ganadería is honoured to have given the greatest number of pardoned bulls for their combativeness. Founded in 1849 per Antonio Miura, it belongs still today to Eduardo and Antonio Miura, descendants of the founder. In 1879, the bull of Navarrese race Murciélago (“bat”), ganadería of Joaquín LED Valley, pardoned for its combativeness and was then offered to Antonio Miura. From him go down many bulls of this prestigious breeding. But the most known remainder Catalán elected better bull of the 20th century by the whole of the observers taurins.

Victorino Martín

Victorino Martín is most prestigious of the stockbreeders of the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21e century; by its selection, and with undoubtedly a little chance, it succeeded in recovering the quality of a herd intended for the slaughter-house: old the albaserrada , of the stockbreeder of the same name.

The breeding of the bull

At the origin of the bullfight, one is satisfied to go in the breedings to seize the bulls which one can suppose that they are most combative of the herd. As from the 17th century, the selection is done more rigorous: some stockbreeders start to especially select their bulls for the needs for the bullfight.

Today, the bulls are especially selected according to their qualities supposed with the combat and of their body mass (sometimes more than 600 kg, but generally between 480 and 550 kg).

The ganaderías ensure a breeding under conditions of insulation which make it possible to guarantee that the bull which enters the arena seen forever of man to foot (the stockbreeders circulate exclusively with horse or in the vehicle). The objective is to obtain “brave” bulls (what is recognized with the fact that they charge with the smallest provocation: either because the bullfighter encroaches on his ground, or with the call). In order to obtain sought qualities, the reproductive cows and bulls are selected during a test called Tienta (or tentadero ).

Anecdote

For the anecdote, Ferruccio Lamborghini, founder of the mark éponyme, was a large amateur of bullfight. The badge of the mark Lamborghini thus represents a bull of Miura; a car model Lamborghini (the first car “of series” with central engine) was baptized “Miura”; in 2002 a model was baptized “Murciélago”, of the name of the bull about which he is spoken above.

See too

Random links: