At the turn of the twentieth century, the bulls were creating plenty of mayhem in the bullring. The bullfighters fought up close to the bull as times were hard and they were pretty desperate. And of course, at that time the horses had no padding or protection of any kind. As such the gorings were frequent and bloody and did not seem to scandalize the spectators much. For example, at the bullfight on the 7th of July 1902, Antonio de Dios, “Conejito”, suffered a serious goring (a bull from the Condesa de Espoz y Mina breed was the culprit) that almost killed him. He survived, but in a bad way for a long time after. The horses had worse luck. The same bull killed eight of them that day. The previous year there were a total of 39 horses killed during the six days of bullfighting. And the following year there was one day when a total of 14 horses were killed in the ring.