{"id":10,"date":"2009-03-25T16:41:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T16:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trickponies.wordpress.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2024-01-13T11:32:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T16:32:24","slug":"ground-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/25\/ground-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the weekend at a horse expo in Harrisburgh, PA I took in some new skills from famous trick trainer, Tommie Turvey.<\/p>\n<p>Chesapeake Lightning aka Blitz was my first guinea pig (due to his puppy dog personality) as I attempted to teach him to lay down. **Don&#8217;t try this at home, as I spent month preparing this pony to attempt this trick.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11\" data-attachment-id=\"11\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/n26602747_33478647_37395362\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n26602747_33478647_37395362.jpg?fit=604%2C453&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"604,453\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Blitz Laying Down\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Me working on trick training with Blitz&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n26602747_33478647_37395362.jpg?fit=590%2C443&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11\" title=\"Blitz Laying Down\" src=\"http:\/\/trickponies.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/n26602747_33478647_37395362.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"Blitz is the first of the Chincoteagues to learn to lay down\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n26602747_33478647_37395362.jpg?w=604&amp;ssl=1 604w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paintingpony.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/n26602747_33478647_37395362.jpg?resize=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blitz is the first of the Chincoteagues to learn to lay down<\/p><\/div>\n<p>watch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9xN5XSR1_9E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>-KD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the weekend at a horse expo in Harrisburgh, PA I took in some new skills from famous trick trainer, Tommie Turvey. 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