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F1 legend Michael Schumacher is slowly “getting better”, wife Corinna has revealed as she broke her silence for the first time since his skiing accident put him in a coma.

She let slip the news during a riding event she hosted at a ranch near the couple's home in Lausanne, Switzerland.

She told the Neue Post: “It’s getting better, slowly certainly, but in any case it’s improving.”

It is the first time Corinna has given any insight into the seven-times world champion’s battle for recovery since he was left on the brink of death after the ski-ing accident in France.

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The 45-year-old was pictured laughing and handing out chocolates at the event as onlookers described her smile as 'a message about fate.’

“It means: we will fight. For every happy moment in life,” one newspaper report said.

Corinna spent months - all day, every day - by the driver's bedside in Grenoble as he was kept in a medically induced coma after suffering the major head injury.

Just weeks ago experts warned she was on the cusp of making herself gravely ill with her worries over the future for her husband Michael, 45, as the Formula One ace struggled to come out of the six month induced coma.

She was told to find downtime for herself otherwise she risked succumbing to depression.

Her smiles at the riding event shows she has taken the advice to heart.

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Schumacher’s manager Sabine Kehm was with her as she held the western-style riding tournament called ‘reining’ at the ranch.

Corinna became an expert in the pursuit several years ago and has won prizes for her skill around the world.

At the CS Ranch - the initials stand for her name - Corinna was said to be ‘the epitome of grace and charm” with a life on hold flooding back to her.

Riders from more than a dozen nations turned up at the ranch for the day’s events at the ultra-modern arena that Corinna bought in 2004.

One guest said: “ Mrs Schumacher radiated an incredible warmth. She was not so mighty that she couldn’t push away a wheelbarrow with manure from the stables. She had kind words for everyone there.’

She was also thrilled her son Mick, 15, who usually likes racing karts like his father did before he graduated to F1, mounted one of her horses to give a display of his equestrian skills before her and his sister Gina-Maria, 17.

Corinna now visits Michael daily at the clinic in Lausanne where he has been for the past three weeks.

His carers hope he may make enough progress to sit in a wheelchair before the summer is out.