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The Spanish Bullfight - A Strategic Retreat
On thousands of ranches all over spain, wealthy landowners began breeding bulls for the express purpose of fighting and dying in the plaza de toros. The animals they came to breed were amazingly consistent in their power, size and aggression. Ernest hemming explained it almost a century ago in his trade mark style, the fighting bull is to the domestic bull as the wolf is to the dog. In spain aristocrats remain in the background and offer up their carefully bred animals to be killed by brave commoners for the amusement of every social sector in between. And this all brings us to the modern age of bull fighting, which is largely considered to be the last 200 years or so.
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