Picador
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A picador is one of the pair of horse-mounted bullfighters in a Spanish-style bullfight that jab the bull with a lance. They perform in the tercio de varas, which is the first of the three stages in a
Picador in Mexico corralling with a bull, 2010.
A pair of picadors en la Santa María de Bogotá, 2018.
Picador in action, 2005.
Bullfighter
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A bullfighter or matador is a performer in the activity of bullfighting. Torero or toureiro, both from Latin taurarius, are the Spanish and Portuguese words for bullfighter, and describe all the perfo
Picador
…a dull bullfight. The picador is obliged to give the bull two lances in a first-category bullring (Barcelona, Madrid, Sevilla, Zaragoza etc.), but the matador may request that the second be waived in second- and third-category rings. The bull may receive three lances if it is particularly ferocious. The aim…
Early 20th-century photograph of a matador, showing traditional outfit in 1935.
Manolete
A picador on horseback lancing the bull, 2010.
Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza