Record falls as top steer takes center stage at Houston Rodeo

The bidding starts at $50,000 - nearly as much as the average household earns in a year in rural Scurry County, where 18-year-old Lillyan Digby lives with her family. Which is why, as she stands on stage at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Saturday morning with her steer Hank, Lillyan can’t help but think, “This isn’t real.”
Hank’s nervous. Cows aren’t built to traipse around a stage in front of hundreds of people waving yardstick bidding paddles. Not even