English horse breaks Madonna's body. Cites her fake accent as cause.

As everyone has heard by now, the planet Earth helped to break Madonna's fall from a horse yesterday. The landing, however, proved to be a wee rough...

NEW YORK - (AP - 8/16/2005) Madonna's 47th birthday celebration was marred Tuesday when she suffered several broken bones in a horse riding accident at her country home outside London, her publicist told The Associated Press. The superstar was treated and released from a hospital after sustaining three cracked ribs, a broken collarbone and a broken hand, according to Liz Rosenberg, her spokeswoman based in New York. Madonna's husband, director Guy Ritchie, took her to the hospital, Rosenberg said. The accident occurred Tuesday at Ashcombe house, the couple's 1,354-acre estate about 100 miles southwest of London. Madonna and an assistant were riding when Madonna, on a horse she wasn't accustomed to riding, took a tumble. Her children, Rocco and Lourdes, were at the home but weren't with her at the time, Rosenberg said.

I find it funny how the spin on the story is about how it was the horse's fault, and not her own poor horsemanship, that caused the accident. It seems to infer that the horse had some eccentricities that surprised Madonna. Perhaps the horse just didn't feel like celebrating her birthday?