First Goring at Santo Domingo

The first Running of the Bulls of Sanfermin 2012, with bulls from the Dolores Aguirre Ybarra bull-ranch, turned out to be a very dangerous and frenetic run (2 min. 53sec). The bulls ran the whole course at a very fast pace, and in a well-behaved manner, without paying much attention to the jam-packed crowd in front of them or threatening to charge at them.

The pack came out of the pens together and stayed in a close group up the Santo Domingo stretch. On reaching City Hall square, they began to stretch out somewhat, and this distance between them widened as they charged across Mercaderes and began to enter the corner of Estafeta Street. It was here that some of the most spectacular running could be seen, as well as the moments of greatest danger.

At the end of the Telefónica stretch, one of the bulls caught a runner's shirt with its horn and it dragged the runner along almost to the entrance into the bullring arena. But luckily, the miraculous cape of San Fermin seems to have worked yet again and no mishap occurred to the runner. The fairly-dispersed bulls now began to enter the bullring one after the other and they made their way quickly to the pens. Only the rear bull seemed reluctant to enter the pens and trotted around the arena for a while before the "dobladores," with their capes did some good work in leading the bull away into the pens. The whole run had taken a time of 2min.53sec.

One runner gored and five other runners taken away to hospital suffering from contusions after the first running of the bulls of Sanfermin 2012, with bulls from the Dolores Aguirre bull-ranch. Except for the gored, the rest have been discharged:

- R.S. 26 year-old from Australia. Suffered contusion to his left knee. His condition is slight. Already discharged.

- J.A.V. 49 year-old from Falces (Navarra). Bruising to his wrist. Multi-contusion. Prognosis reserved. Already discharged.

- M.G.J. 19 year-old from Falces (Navarra). Bruising to his rib. His condition is slight. Already discharged.

- J.A.O. 39 year-old from Arganda del Rey (Madrid). Dislocated left shoulder. His condition is slight. Already discharged.
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- K.S. 21 year-old from Ikeda (Japan). Contusion to his back. His condition is slight. Already discharged.

- V.A.C. 73 year-old from Pamplona. Suffered a goring to his right leg. Prognosis is not serious.

Further information at the Government of Navarra website.

In 13 participations the Dolores Aguirre have caused 14 gorings (1,08 per running of the bulls).

Dolores Aguirre is the 11 bull-ranch with the highest average of gorings (1,08 per running of the bulls).

In 13 participations this was the 9th time that the Dolores Aguirre caused gorings.

Dolores Aguirre is the 7th bull-ranch which causes the most injuries from bruising (44 in total).

In their 13 participations the Dolores Aguirre have always run under 5 minutes.

The 9th time that a goring took place on Santo Domingo on Saturday. The previous took place on 07/07/2007.

On Saturday the stretch with the most gorings is Estafeta (10 in 37 runnings).

4th goring by Dolores Aguirre on Santo Domingo (0,31 per running of the bulls).