Bougue, first ever.
This is a competition for aspiring bullfighters, all presented by French and Spanish bullfighting schools. Bougue and the first Bolsin, competition of this type, created in France . Ten young people will therefore compete this morning for three places in the final in the afternoon. Feverish kids passed through Bougue at the very beginning of their bullfighting adventure before becoming stars for some like Sebastian Castella, Alejandro Talavante, Alvaro Lorenzo or at least leading bullfighters like Cesar Jiménez or Fernando Cruz. Bougue has become in a quarter of a century a reference on both sides of the Pyrenees. The first French competition for aspiring matadors. The case is divided into two sequences. This morning ten novilleros will each be pitted against a cow from Jean-Louis Darré’s herd. A jury retains the three best at the end of this qualification. In the afternoon the novilleros held back five novillos de Camino de Santiago, one each then the last two young bulls for the two finalists. We will closely monitor the performance of the young player Tristan Barroso, native of the Landes, settled with his family in Caceres, pupil of the bullfighting school of Badajoz. Since his debut in public last year, the Montois who went to the Adour Aficion school has done wonders. Another gifted seeker will also be looked at, Rafael Ponce de Leonfrom the French bullfighting center of Nîmes.