Golly, look what I've found~!

For most stars in the fickle music business, the bad break is hitting middle age. For Madonna, it's suffering bad breaks on her 47th birthday.

The still-potent pop powerhouse broke a collarbone, fractured a hand, and cracked three ribs Tuesday after she fell from a horse while riding on her London-area estate, publicist Liz Rosenberg confirmed to E! News.

On the occasion of the 47th anniversary of her 1958 debut in Bay City, Michigan, the former Madonna Ciccone was taken to a hospital by husband Guy Ritchie. She was expected to remain in the unnamed facility through Tuesday night, Rosenberg said.

Per the publicist, Madonna, her writer-director spouse and her two children were marking the family matriarch's birthday by spending the day in the English countryside. The celebration took a painful turn when Madonna, out riding with an assistant, was thrown from a horse that was new to her.

To hear one British tab tell it, just about every horse is new to Madonna. London's Mirror gossiped last month that the pop star is a recent convert to the equestrian lifestyle, part of the American singer's latest bid to, as it said, "reinvent herself as an English country wife."

Prior to the fall, the highlight of Madonna's summer vacation had been helping front the London portion of the Live 8 mega-concert in July. She was one of the few acts to also have performed on the Live Aid bill 20 years earlier.

It would behoove the era-defying entertainer to be a fast healer, if for no other commercial reason than the promotional road beckons. Her latest album, Confessions on a Dance Floor, is due out in November.