Ragtime, a 27 1/2-inch-high miniature horse, is a household pet, not a barnyard animal, and so may continue living in a Thousand Oaks house, a Ventura Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.
Judge Edwin M. Osborne denied a request by the Oakbrook Village Homeowners Assn., which sought to have the 177-pound horse removed from the house of his owner, Patti Fairchild. The association's civil suit claimed that Fairchild kept Ragtime in violation of the rules of the 300-house neighborhood in the northeast section of the city.
