Crupper pad assembly with tail bag

A crupper padding and tail positioning assembly to hold a horse's tail in a tail crupper of a tail set and pad the horse's tail and rump, the assembly comprising:

• a flexible crupper pad for being interposed between the horse's tail and the tail crupper;
• a plurality of crupper pad tail securement straps extending from the crupper pad;
• a flexible top tail pad for placement over a top of the horse's tail;
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• a plurality of top tail pad securement straps extending from the top tail pad for connection to the tail set.

A tail bag for inhibiting feces, urine, dirt, and other contaminates from soiling a horse's tail, the tail bag comprising:

• a flexible sheet material being moisture penetration resistant and defining an internal cavity and having a top, a bottom, and an opening to the internal cavity;
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• an attachment mechanism connected to the sheet material adjacent to the top of the sheet material for connection to a tail set adjacent and above the horse's anus;
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• the tail bag in combination with a crupper pad having an attachment strap;
• and the attachment mechanism comprising a center loop receiving the attachment strap therethrough;
• a first corner loop adjacent to a first corner of the top of the sheet material, and the first corner for extending through a first bottom ring of a crupper, and the first corner loop receiving the attachment strap therethrough;
• a second corner loop adjacent to a second corner of the top of the sheet material, and the second corner for extending through a second bottom ring of a crupper, and the second corner loop receiving the attachment strap therethrough.

A crupper pad interposable between a tail crupper of a tail set and a horse's tail and rump to pad the horse's tail and rump from the tail crupper, the crupper pad comprising:

• a flexible padding material having a perimeter, a longitudinal axis, a crupper side, a tail side, a base end, and a tail end;
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• the flexible padding material including:
• a base section having a large width for padding a base of the crupper, and the base section including opposite convex curves on the perimeter of the padding material;
• a tail padding section having a medium width for padding a tail rest of the crupper, and the tail padding section tapering in width in a direction from the base end to the tail end;
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• a crupper foot section between the base section and the tail padding section, and the foot section having a small width for positioning between feet of the crupper and including opposite concave curves on the perimeter of the padding material.

A tail crupper in combination with a crupper pad, the crupper pad comprising:

• a flexible padding material having a perimeter, a longitudinal axis, a crupper side, a tail side, a base end, and a tail end;
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• the flexible padding material including:
• a base section having a base width for padding a base of the crupper;
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• a tail padding section having a tail width for padding a tail rest of the crupper;
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• an attachment strap extending generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of the padding material for attaching the crupper pad to the tail crupper.

A tail bag for inhibiting feces, urine, dirt, and other contaminates from soiling a horse's tail, the tail bag comprising:

• a flexible sheet material being moisture penetration resistant and defining an internal cavity and having a top, a bottom, and an opening to the internal cavity;
• an attachment mechanism connected to the sheet material adjacent to the top of the sheet material for connection to a tail set adjacent and above the horse's anus;
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• the tail bag in combination with a crupper having bottom rings, and the first attachment mechanism is attached to the bottom rings of the crupper.