Tom’s form here is poor. Wouldn’t it be better for the horse and for Tom if people, instructors, riders mentioned it to him and offered to help him improve. If he was doing it out of malice, they would have to take a different firmer approach, like a small action to prevent a greater harm from occurring

In reading Winston Churchill’s account of World War II published by Life magazine he says ” The war could have been prevented many times through relatively small actions.” Germany overtook Chekozlovakia while Germany had thirty divisions. France had seventy. That would have been a smaller war that would have prevented a bigger war.
I am changing my tune. Maybe it is impossible to have peace all the time. Maybe there has to be checking and balancing between countries and within countries.
The trick is to put down the bully before he gets to large and dangerous.
To prevent wars we will have to figure out how to keep the bully from coming to power. Bullies in any country are a danger to all countries because of what cycles of violence they can start.