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Exiliado de Garcigrande - 715 kilos !
Madrid
May 29, 2026
So, a couple of days ago in Madrid we saw something that is rarely seen anymore, a bull over 700 kilos!
Typically your novillos are in the 400 kilo range, and normal bulls are in the 500 kilo range. I saw an interview somewhere with some ganadero, I can't remember who, that said ideally he thought the best fighting bulls were in the mid-500 kilo range.
Anyway, "big bulls" will easily get into the 600 kilos but once you start getting into the upper 600's usually the bulls don't move very well and tire out very quickly. Therefore, they are not very good for a bullfight where you want to see a bull have strength and fight throughout the entire performance.
So you almost never see a bull in the 700 kilo area.
However two days ago Madrid saw just that, a bull named Exiliado from the Garcigrande ranch, 715 kilos!
Well, it did not turn out well. Exiliado was first brought out as a substitute for another bull that had to be returned to the corrals for some reason, and quickly was returned himself. From what I read Exiliado was not able to keep on his feet long during the tercio with the picador.
So all we have are a couple of photos from the Las Ventas website, and I'm guessing we probably won't see a bull this big again for years if ever.
May 24, 2026
A quick update
I haven't been posting a whole lot, I have been super busy with yard work and such. (Yard work is never ending it seems.)
I have been playing Toroslam however, and as you can see in the below post I am doing very well. I shouldn't get cocky, I can drop back down as fast as I went up.
Also, feel free to use the photo of Jose Maria Manzanares I posted the other day as your telephone wallpaper. That is my current Iphone wallpaper and I'm loving it.
I've searched for a long time to get the perfect photo of either a bull or a bullfighter to use as my wallpaper, I could never get what I thought was the perfect photo. But that one of Jose Mari has been the one, it looks great.
What do you think?
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