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Not unfrequently, however, a gored horse or a mutilated rider is produced by the "coleo;" and fatal accidents have occurred at times. The horses, too, sometimes stumble, and both horse and rider are trampled by the others crowding from behind, so that in the pellmell drive awkward accidents are anything but uncommon.
One condition of the "coleo" was, that each competitor, after having once failed, should retire from the ground; so that the hacendado and the dragoon were now actually hors de chasse. These were seen riding back, though not directly in front of the spectators. They preferred making a roundabout thing of it, so that their fallen faces might not be too closely scanned on their return.
Every eye was fixed upon him with interest, and the spectators freely commented upon his qualities. Some thought him too fat, others alleged he was just in the condition to make a good run as, in the coleo, speed, not courage, is the desirable quality.
Nearly a hundred are there of these youths who intend to take part in the various trials of skill in equitation. Let the sports begin! The first exhibition on the programme was to be the coleo de toros, which may be rendered in English as "tailing the bull."
With them his skill in the "coleo de toros," in "running the cock," his feat of horsemanship on the cliff his singular escapes from carbine and lance, were no longer due to himself, but to the devil. The "diablo" was at the bottom of all!
Fresh lazoes were wound about his neck, others tripped up his legs, and he was at length flung violently upon the ground and his quarters well stretched. He was now completely conquered, and would run no more; and as but two bulls had been provided for the occasion, the "coleo de toros" was for that day at an end.
The coleo is, therefore, a game of strength, courage, and skill; and to excel in it is an object of high ambition among the youth of a New Mexican settlement. The arrangements having been completed, it was announced by a herald that the coleo was about to begin.
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