MAY DAY TIENTA - 2010

ELK GROVE PLAZA DE TOROS - CALIFORNIA

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Wikipedia defines Tienta - "Fighting cattle born on specialised, wide-ranging ranches which are often havens for Spanish wildlife as the farming techniques used are extensive.It is raised by its mother until one year old, after which it is separated from the mother regardless of gender. When they reach two years or so, they are sent to the tienta, or testing.The males will establish if they are suitable for breeding, the bullfight, or being slaughtered for meat. The females are more fully tested, including by a bullfighter with his capes, hence a bull's "courage" is often said to descend from his mother.If fit for bullfighting bulls will return to their peers. Cows passing the tienta will become mothers and slaughtered only when they are too old to bear calves" 

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below: Maestro Dennis Borba 

Maestro Dennis Borba

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