Georgia Bruce (born 7 May 1981) is an expert in equine behavior and psychology. She specializes in the

positive reinforcement In behavioral psychology, reinforcement is a consequence applied that will strengthen an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent stimulus. This strengthening effect may be measured as a higher freq ...

based training method known as "Clicker Training". Georgia has written two books about clicker training horses and has also produced an Online Training Course on equine clicker training. Bruce gives lessons, clinics, trick shows and clicker training demonstrations around Australia. Her broad repertoire of horse training skills includes training trick horses, liberty horses, wild horses, starting young horses and retraining horses with problem behaviours. Bruce also has extensive experience training horses for high level performance in both dressage and

reining Reining is a western riding competition for horses where the riders guide the horses through a precise pattern of circles, spins, and stops. All work is done at the lope (a version of the horse gait more commonly known worldwide as the canter), o ...

. Bruce has represented Australia on 12 occasions in the equestrian sport of dressage. She competed at the

2004 Athens Games The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

. She won a bronze medal at the

2008 Beijing Games The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

in the Mixed Dressage – Championship grade IV event and a bronze medal in the Mixed Dressage – Freestyle grade IV event. She has no radial bone or thumb on her right hand.

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Paralympic equestrians for Australia Equestrians at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic bronze medalists for Australia Living people 1981 births Australian female equestrians Medalists at the 2008 Summer Paralympics Paralympic medalists in equestrian 21st-century Australian women Sportspeople from Cairns Sportswomen from Queensland {{Australia-equestrian-bio-stub