Rep: Madonna Released From Hospital After Horseback Riding Accident

Madonna has been released from Southampton Hospital in the Hamptons with "minor injuries and bruises" following being thrown off a horse earlier on Saturday, the pop star's rep, Liz Rosenberg, told Access Hollywood.

"The accident occurred when the horse Madonna was riding was startled by paparazzi who jumped out of the bushes to photograph the singer who was visiting friends on Eastern Long Island over the weekend,"Rosenberg told Access. "Madonna will be having further tests and continues to remain under observation by doctors."

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It wasn't the equestrian star's first horse-related injury. Madonna broke several bones in a 2005 fall on her English country estate on her 47th birthday, including three cracked ribs, a broken collarbone and a broken hand.

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