BRITAIN: Singer Madonna was recovering yesterday after suffering several broken bones in a riding accident, but the injuries were not expected to delay the launch of her new album due out in November.
The singer cracked three ribs and broke her collar bone and a hand when she fell off her horse yesterday at her 1,200-acre English country estate, Ashcombe House.
She had been celebrating her 47th birthday with husband Guy Ritchie and two children Lourdes and Rocco.
The $16 million property is located near the village of Tollard Royal, around 160km southwest of London. Madonna's New York publicist said the artist was riding a new horse at the time of the fall.
She was treated at a local hospital in Salisbury and later discharged.
The Mirror newspaper quoted one onlooker as saying: "She was clearly in agony and was in floods of tears."
Madonna is due to release a new album, Confessions on a Dancefloor, in November. Her publicist said she did not expect Madonna's injuries to affect the launch or promotion of the record.