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Daniel Garcia Navarrete was knocked off his feet after being
gored in the leg by the 460 kg (1,014 pounds) bull, who then
went for his throat as he lay on the ground covering his face.
Las Ventas officials said the injuries were 15cm deep in the
throat and 10cm into the leg.
The animal tossed Navarrete around the ring before other
matadors came to his rescue and warned the animal off in an
incident witnessed by more than 10,000 people at Spain's largest
bullring.
"There was blood on his neck and a hole in his thigh," one
spectator said.
"The bull was shaking him about like a rag doll."
Navarrete, from the southern Spanish city of Jaen, was hurriedly
carried away by the other matadors and underwent surgery on
Sunday. He was resting in hospital on Monday, the Las Ventas
bullring said in a statement.
Bullfighting is a centuries-old tradition in Spain and remains
popular, but some local authorities have clamped down on fights
amid a growing animal rights movement against the practice.
(Reporting by Anna Valderrama. Writing by Patrick Johnston,
editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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