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Susanna Forrest, link below, has the audacity to question me, when it is a verifiable fact that I have never been wrong in my life!!!!  :) 

Merlin the Bullfighting Horse « If Wishes Were Horses
 
Promoting Jacques Bonniers breeding program:

What can anybody tell me about an AZTECA horse?? [Archive ...

Very interesting! I had always thought that Aztecas were just a BYB thing (it's what we see around here) that someone had come up with a registry for. I had no idea it was a purpose-bred crossbreed with an established plan.

Does anyone have any links to GOOD Aztecas? They sound like cool little horses.

http://www.americanazteca.com/id16.htm

http://circusnospin.blogspot.com/2008/12/merlin-registered-name-orpheo.html

"Merlin(Orpheo) is a Bullfighting Lusitano stallion 7/8's Lusitano X 1/8th Quarterhorse, bred by former Rejoneador Jacques Bonnier (the tall gray haired gentleman in the video who greets de Mendoza before he returns to the bull).http://www.jbpre.fr/jacques%20bonnier.htm Merlin was initially trained by Rafi Dumond, who is seen in the opening segment schooling Merlin. He is currently owned and ridden in the bullring by Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza. Although a Spaniard, de Mendoza, fights in the Portuguese style in which the horse and rider dispatch the bull rather than merely weakening the bull as the horse mounted picador does for the Matador in classical Spanish Bullfighting. De Mendoza is often called the finest Rejoneador in the world by aficionados and press."

There are some lovely horses for sale on Jacques Bonnier's website!


The Circus "NO SPIN ZONE": Jacques Bonnier breeder of Merlin when he was a Rejoneador

Elevage Jacques Bonnier

The Circus "NO SPIN ZONE": Merlin--registered name Orpheo 
 

http://www.americanazteca.com/id16.htm

http://circusnospin.blogspot.com/2008/12/merlin-registered-name-orpheo.html

"Merlin(Orpheo) is a Bullfighting Lusitano stallion 7/8's Lusitano X 1/8th Quarterhorse, bred by former Rejoneador Jacques Bonnier (the tall gray haired gentleman in the video who greets de Mendoza before he returns to the bull).http://www.jbpre.fr/jacques%20bonnier.htm Merlin was initially trained by Rafi Dumond, who is seen in the opening segment schooling Merlin. He is currently owned and ridden in the bullring by Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza. Although a Spaniard, de Mendoza, fights in the Portuguese style in which the horse and rider dispatch the bull rather than merely weakening the bull as the horse mounted picador does for the Matador in classical Spanish Bullfighting. De Mendoza is often called the finest Rejoneador in the world by aficionados and press."

There are some lovely horses for sale on Jacques Bonnier's website!

Indeed there are. I'm drooling here...


Pablo "augering in", below in 2009.  For all you folks who "I have never been hurt", show me something!!!!!