Jeanne Kraus, Erin O'Brien at the MS Cure Fund wingding

MS Cure Fund founder Susan Strachan secretly held up the hope that singer Madonna would pop in her fund-raiser during the Palm Beach International Equestrian Center‘s season finale Saturday night in Wellington.

The Material Girl, a star presence during this horse-jumping season here, didn’t show. But that didn’t prevent Strachan from raising more than $100,000 in one of the center’s VIP tents as riders in the arena competed for a total $600,000 in purses.

The Wild Wild West-themed event brought out Palm Beachers who rarely venture off their island, as well as Wellington horsie types.

The two groups, by the way, don’t mesh. Strachan had to find a different table for a crew from Wellington who found out they’d be sitting next to Palm Beachers, and wouldn’t have it.

“It’s our first event like this,” said Strachan, a multiple sclerosis suffered who once was the Palm Beach head of fundraising for the Boston-based Dana Farber Cancer Institute. “Many Palm Beachers told me they’d come just so they wouldn’t have to wear their tuxes for one Saturday night.”

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Welly World’s about to get a tad wilder.

Madonna, of all people, is on her way to Wellington’s Winter Equestrian Festival, of all places. And she could stay for up to two weeks.

The outrageous singer reportedly may arrive before week’s end.

She’s scheduled to train with her personal riding coach and catch some of the jumping competition at the show grounds.

It’s unclear at this point if Madonna, who took up horse riding when she moved to England with ex-husband Guy Ritchie, will compete.

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Madonna arrives at the Signature Grand terminal at Miami International Airport for tonight's show. (Photo by Splashnews)

Madonna landed in South Florida about 1:33 a.m. this morning as she’s scheduled to take the stage at Dolphin Stadium tonight for her world tour-ending show.

The Material Girl stepped off her private jet parked near the Signature Grand terminal and disappeared in a Maybach on the tarmac.
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It’s the SoFla lovenest that Madonna will never get to settle in!

Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and his soon-to-be-ex-wife Cynthia are selling their Coral Gables mansion as part of their divorce settlement – a divorce reportedly caused by A-Rod’s closeness to the singer of Like a Virgin.

Realtor Melissa Bassett of Avatar Real Estate Services says there’s already been interest in the 8,300-square-foot manse in the Sunrise Harbour neighborhood.

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