Update: Madonna is back in town. She quietly slipped into the stands of the International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington Saturday afternoon for the 26-goal game between Black Watch and Las Monjitas. Guess who plays for Black Watch? That’s right, Nacho Figueras.

Polo superstar Nacho Figueras spent part of Friday night’s fund-raising gala for Best Buddies International deflecting questions about Madonna.

Nacho Figueras with wife Delphina Friday at The Breakers (Photo by Michele Sandberg)

The Ralph Lauren model Figueras gave the Material Girl private polo lessons during her recent two-week stay in Wellington. She later returned to watch him play in a high-goal match.

Does anyone need more proof these days to make something of it?

“Shhhh, don’t make me talk about that,” Figueras said within earshot of his wife Delfina, a former model.

Well, is Madonna abandoning her interest in show jumping for polo?

“She is learning polo indeed,” Figueras said, “but whether she likes it better than jumping, you need to ask her yourself.

“She just likes horses.”

Kennedy clan stalwart Anthony Shriver with ball chairman Mark Freitas

Friday’s shindig at Palm Beach’s The Breakers for the non-profit founded by Kennedy clan do-gooder Anthony Shriver, meanwhile, raised more than $550,000, according to Chairman Mark Freitas. Best Buddies pairs up disabled people with mentors.

“A month ago, we were thinking about canceling,” Freitas said. “And now we raise that kind of money.”

Miami Beach’s Shriver, 43, took advantage of the gala to announce that his wife Alina, 44, is expecting their fifth child.

Remember. Shriver’s a Kennedy.

(For more photos by Michele Sandberg, click here.)