FIVE THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT: Joyce Tappan

1. Horses love peppermints. Tappan occasionally takes a pocketful of peppermints to the tracks.

2. Tappan rode horses as a young girl. Her granddaughter, Hanna, now rides.

3. Casey’s Jet won 6 times and she says it is her favorite of the horses she has owned.

4. Tappan has had a lot of fun with her partnerships, and out of all of the ones she has had in the past 30 years, she has only had one that turned out badly.

5. The partners take turns naming their horses and Tappan likes to name her horses after her daughter and granddaughter. She has named horses Hanna’s Fury and Hanna’s Harmony after her granddaughter, and Viva for all after her daughter, Viva.

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