This youngster spent the last year raising this steer from a calf for presentation at the Junior Market Steer Auction. The Rodeo Auction Angeles make sure none of those journeys go to waste.
Thank-you notes have come pouring in for the Rodeo Auction Angels from youngsters whose steers at the bottom of the auction barrel in the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Junior Market Steer Auction were purchased by the group of dedicated philanthropists. Without the support of these angels, plenty of participating kids — with no bid — would have left the auction downhearted.
In 2024 Dana Barton and full-time jeweler/part-time philanthropist Tony Bradfield, veteran Steer Committee members, gathered together a team of Houston Rodeo enthusiasts whose generosity would guarantee that no youngster would go home empty handed. It is an official buying group dedicated to championing the Junior Market Steer exhibitors. The RAA has contributed more than $1 million in support of the education missiom of HLSR.
The flurry of handwritten thank you notes that the group received after last year’s auction tell the story of how important the work of the Rodeo Auction Angels truly is.
A few examples of those touching thank you notes:…