Portuguese race

The Portuguese race or Portuguese bullfight (Portuguese: “tourada”) is a form of Corrida to horse, practiced primarily with the Portugal and also in midday of the France.

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In Portugal, the setting with died in public is prohibited de facto since the 17th century, in right since 1928; moreover, the Picador is also prohibited. So the bullfight with foot is only marginal there, the bullfight with horse constituting the essence of the Portuguese Tauromachie. It is similar to its counterpart Spanish, which it inspired besides. In both cases, the setting with death is replaced by the pega carried out by the forcados . Those are teams of young people who place themselves in Indian file vis-a-vis the bull and start his load. The first forcado clings between the horns, then the following clings of an arm to the precedent and other arm takes the bull with arm-the-body, alternatively on the right and on the left, the last clinging to the tail. It any more but does not remain to bring back the bull to the Toril, where it will be cut down.

During the bullfight, three torères affronteent chacuns two bulls. The bullfight is carried out into three " terso" by bullfighter. The permier, the " Paseo" , is held without the presence of the bull; the 3 bullfighters show their skill in horse with generally spectacular paces like the passage or the levade. The second, the terso of the banderillas, is the only one where the rider faces the bull. The goal is to place the bull then to call the load and to plant the banderillas (of which the spades are longer in Spain than in Portugal, for better immobilizing the bull and facilitating the setting with dead). The load of the bull is initially accepted on the right with long banderillas, then increasingly short, the most difficult pause of banderillas being the pause " in violon" , when the bullfighter accepts the load of the bull by the left and pauses his banderilla of the right hand. The third terso is the " pega" " forcados" , which replaces the setting with Spanish death.

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