The businessman, rancher and politician Manuel Morilla Ramos passed away this monday Morón de la Frontera at the age of 81, according to sources close to the family of the also attorney, who was the discoverer of Jesulin de Ubrique.
Manolo Morilla, as he was popularly known, began his relationship with the world of bullfighting as a chronicler for ‘The Voice of the Guadalquivir’ and came to be seized by several bullfighters and rejoneadores such as peralta brothers whom he accompanied for more than three decades.
In the same way, he was part of the team, along with Juan Ruiz Palomareswhich encouraged the hatching of Enrique Ponce in the early 90’s.
But, in any case, his career is inexcusably linked to the heyday of Jesulín de Ubrique, which he dominated from his professional beginnings, when he was still a child who stood out in the promotion festivities that were held in the surroundings of the Cadiz mountains.
Hand in hand with the bullfighter from Morón, Jesulín became the fashionable novillero together with other future matadors such as Finite of Cordoba o Antonio Borrero “Boy” and arrived at his alternative in Nimes in the fNimes Harvest Fair in 1990.