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• The author Picador poached from Random House is, incidentally, the first British winner since 1998.
• The horse on which the picador is mounted is bought only to be killed. Six Months in Mexico
• Art historians will remember that these precocious painters aren't an exclusively 21st century phenomenon: Pablo Picasso showed unusual promise at the age of 8 with his bullfighter painting "Picador," while Dürer crafted a strikingly precise silverpoint self-portrait at 13. ARTINFO: From the Palettes of Babes: 5 Prodigious Child Artists to Watch
• Cloaks were tossed to attendants, each footman received a red cape, the two _picadores_ took position one on either side of the bull pen gate, the band struck up a tune, the gate was opened and a great Utreran bull bounded into the arena, maddened with the pain of a short _banderilla_, with long streaming ribbons, stuck in his neck as he entered, by an attendant perched above the gate. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
• While the bullock is a constant danger, the show descends into comedy when two dwarf “picadors” enter the ring. Mexican Dwarf Bullfighters | Impact Lab
• Accompanied by bugles, two picadors then make their way out, their horses sheathed in an unwieldy but effective armour.
• The bull is encouraged to charge one of the picadors, who can now attack it with the lance, piercing its neck and back muscles in order to make it lower its head, without which it would be impossibly dangerous to fight on foot.
• This is beyond books, " said Paul Baggaley, publisher at rival firm Picador. "It has become an event which is a phenomenon.
• At length, in a moment of great irritation, excited on the one hand by his intense interest in the poor suffering girl, and anger at the peevish, helpless Don Picador, Don Ricardo, to our unutterable surprise, rapped out, in gude broad Scotch, as he brushed away Senor Cangrejo from the bedside with a violence that spun him out of the door -- "God -- the auld doited deevil is as fusionless as a docken. Tom Cringle's Log
• In the Orient young bulls are tested for the fight arena in a certain manner. Each is brought to the ring and allowed to attack a picador who pricks them with a lance.