Madonna injured in riding mishap

Madonna’s 47th-birthday celebration was marred when she suffered several broken bones in a horse riding accident at her country home outside London, her publicist said Tuesday.

The superstar was hospitalized with three cracked ribs, a broken collarbone and a broken hand, according to Liz Rosenberg, her spokeswoman based in New York.

The accident occurred Tuesday at Ashcombe house, the six-bedroom estate outside of London that she and her husband, film director Guy Ritchie, bought three years ago.

Madonna and an assistant were riding horses when Madonna, on a new horse she wasn’t accustomed to riding, took a tumble. Her children, Rocco and Lourdes, were at the home but were not with their mother at the time, Rosenberg said. Ritchie took her to the hospital.