Victoria Beckham's birthday will be horse-themed

For her 40th birthday, Victoria Beckham is planning a horse-themed party in the Hollywood Hills with friends, including actress Eva Longoria.

The fashion designer will be celebrated on April 17. She has joined a riding club in Los Angeles and is planning to gallop around the Hollywood Hills with friends to mark her big day.

The Daily Mirror newspaper's source said: "Victoria actually went riding properly for the first time a couple of years ago and loved it. But over the past few months she has stepped things up a notch and got really good. Obviously she can't keep a horse in her back garden in west London, but when she is in LA, which is around once every five or six weeks, she goes riding daily in the hills. Not only is it great exercise, but in her helmet Victoria can go about largely unnoticed".

Victoria, who has 4 children with husband David, is having two birthday bashes in Los Angeles and London.

The source added: "The evening do is dinner out at Eva's restaurant Beso, with most of Victoria and David's Hollywood chums, including the Ramsays - Gordon and Tana. She is also having a civilised family dinner party at home in London, which her mum is helping to organise. Gordon will probably be roped in to do the cooking. And obviously David, the boys and Harper are planning their own surprise".