Yes, the bull gains confidence when it is able to make contact with a padded horse. It also helps to tire the tossing muscle causing the bull to lower its head and concentrate its charge, making it a bit easier for the matador to control the animal during the final phase of the fight.
The only time a bull is not killed in a bullfight is when the animal receives an indulto (pardon) for a particularly good performance. This is to prevent the animals from being used again in another bullfight which would be extremely dangerous for the matador.
I would think... they would be eaten. Unless there was some cultural reason to honor the bull with a proper burial.
The bulls are butchered and the meat is either sold to a specialty restaurant or donated to charity. It is not wasted.
The matador, the torero who kills the bull, is the star of the bullfight.
In Spanish, bull = toro.
The bullfight is over when the final bull (6th) is killed.
The minimum weight for a bull in a regular bullfight is 1000 pounds but a mature bull can weigh 1600 pounds or more. I have not seen any record weight for a fighting bull.
There are many important participants in a bullfight but the main ones are the matador and the bull. Without either of these there could be no bullfight.
A picador is one of the pair of horsemen in a Spanish bullfight that jab the bull with a lance.
The bull is almost guaranteed to die in the bullfight.
Bull fighting :)
A bullfight is over when the last (6th) bull is dead.
Nobody 'throws spears' at the bull during a typical Spanish style bullfight.
During a bullfight, banderilleros stab the bull with a banderillo, a dart that is thrust into the bull's shoulder. They do this to weaken the bull and to make it angry.
The action when the matador thrusts a sword into the bull at the final stage of a bullfight.