| Soon after, someone asked him to write a nonfiction account of the corrida de toros, or traditional Spanish bullfight. |
| A corrida starts with a parade of all the contestants and bailiffs dressed in 17th century costume, who salute the president of the fight. |
| A ban on cutting animals' horns could prevent the practice of afeitado where a bull's horns are filed down before it enters the corrida. |
| We have purchased our seat in the sombra of the great bull-ring, and the corrida is about to begin. |
| But nowhere has there ever been a record of a horse that has died during the corrida. |
| On one occasion, traveling to a corrida in Andujar, he turned to his banderillero and announced he was going to do something that afternoon no one had ever seen before. |
