Raised in the largest farmhouses of the region, the Camargue bull was first intended for butchery and plowing work in the 18th and early 19th centuries. However, it represented a danger to the farmworkers who could not contain him. The domestication of the Camargue bull never actually succeeded, and agricultural work was often of poor quality due to the lack of real control over the animal. It was not until the growth of bull racing and the rise of Camargue races in the second half of the 19th century that bull breeding as known today developed. Little by little, the breeders became handlers.