A female bullfighter was gored in the face by a half-ton bull that ignored the distraction of her swirling pink cape and charged directly into her as she knelt on the ground in an arena in Mexico.

Hilda Tenorio, 32, is recovering in hospital with a broken and punctured upper palate and fractured cheekbones after the incident on May 3 in the city of Puebla, which was caught on video.

Footage posted to social media shows Tenorio—who needed 80 stitches after a previous goring—kneeling on the ground, swirling her yellow and pink cape as the bull thunders toward her. The bull was named “Querido Viejo” which translates as “My Dear Old Friend.”

But instead of aiming for the cape, the bull charged straight into her, pinning her briefly against the side of the arena.

The bull swiftly rushed on as onlookers ran to help the motionless Tenorio lying in the dirt.

Photographs in local media reports show Tenorio carried away with her face covered in blood.

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