It was an announcement that took the bullfighting world by surprise. Knight of Tomar Roy Salvador I decided to suspend the bullfighting season this year.”For personal reasons and various professional commitments in the future.

In a statement, Knight said he made that decision “With a heavy heart, but above all with an enormous sense of responsibility, honesty and respect for all.”

This means canceling your participation in the 14 bullfights that were already scheduled. Her only participation this year will be on March 26 in the bullfighting festival at the Balha Blanco bullring, in Vila Franca de Xira, according to the commitment assumed in the last bullfighting season.

Roy Salvador promises to return “Stronger in 2024”, I am already thinking of the celebrations of 40 years of Alternativa.

Thanks knight “The treatment, interest and will of businessmen who have concluded with respect the pre-season agreements and agreements for the 2023 season in their markets, namely: Tomar, Nazaré, Figueira da Foz, Campo Pequeno, Santo António das Areias, Terrugem, Portalegre, Arruda dos Vinhos, Vila Nova da Barquinha, Azambuja and Paio Pires, Alcácer do Sal, São Manços and Viana do Alentejo”, Races that, after agreement, were abandoned.

Thanks also to “amateurs, entrepreneurs, fellow bullfighters, critics, journalists, collaborators and friends”.

According to the Farpas website, Roy Salvador “At the moment he has no horse court equal to the obligations that await him and, as always, over four decades of acclaimed professionalism, he does not want to ‘defraud the public’.”