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US Patent No. 249743 Device for Holding Horses Tails by W B Butcher November 22 1881 declaration print The parlor here is aUs Patent No. 249743 Device for Holding Horses Tails by W B Butchers November 22 1881 Butcher's inventor's diagram belongs to the era of the trotting track and the harness race, when a horse's tail, left to its own devices, could foul the reins mid stride. The schematic shows a tidy clamping apparatus meant to gather and hold that tail aloft, a small mechanical courtesy from the age of the sulky. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts