On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:10:35PM -0800, Judy Ryder wrote: > As you can see, the term "collection" can not > be used to describe these components, since they are, > in fact, opposite to the components of collection. > Some trainers, however, are mistakenly using the term > to describe this type of "frame". In gait, the frame > that the horse takes, can be referred to as a > shortened frame, contained, or gathered up, rather > than collection.
i guess i see this as a natural-language problem. people do call a gaiting horse who is reaching under itself with its hind legs and expanding and using its chest muscles (as opposed to say its topline in dorsoflexed gaits) "collected". if that is in common usage, it is likely to stay that way, and the term itself come to change. i am reminded of french "le weekend", formally opposed by the official regulators of the french language, which french has got and english doesn't. "le weekend" continues, however, in common french parlance, and i doubt very much it will disappear anytime soon. --vicka
