Doctors in Mexico are preparing to gradually take matador Jose Tomas off sedation.

Tomas's manager said the 34 year-old was now totally out of danger and  communicative.

Tomas was gored in the groin on Saturday during a bullfight in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes.

The matador received a blood transfusion after the bull's horn severed a vein and an artery.

Mexican television footage showed Tomas working the animal with his cape when the bull makes a quick turn toward the matador and catches him in the groin, lifting him into the air for a few seconds and shaking its head with Tomas dangling from its sharp left horn.

Tomas is known for a daring bullfighting style in which he gets particularly close to the bull.

He has previously suffered a number of serious gorings in Spain.

AP