I don’t really care for peppermints myself but I buy those big huge bags of peppermints just for horsey purposes. I keep a whole plastic peanut butter jar full of them in the barn. Keeping them in the jar with the lid screwed on keeps them from getting all slimy in the humidity. That way any time I have to do something to them, like trimming their feet or their bridle path, or anything they might find annoying, it sweetens the deal a little bit. And they know that it’s coming, or it SHOULD be coming. Whenever they hear me tear loose the velcro to take off my trimming chaps they start getting all expectant-looking. So funny!
Our horses can hear a peppermint candy wrapper a mile and a half away. Levi gets carried away and licks his lips over and over again, then you, then whatever is in his reach. The arm of my jacket is usually soaked in horse slobber by the time we get to the paddock. It’s both disgusting and endearing.