As I see it, the problem here is that Greenwood/Parx went for the equivalent of
the NCAA's "death penalty", basically denying Preciado access to the grounds, and
in the view of the legal system, denying the man the right to ply his trade
without affording him due process of the law.

What Parx should have done is more the equivalent of Dean Wormer's "double secret
probation." Once Parx determined that Preciado was somehow operating in a manner
detrimental to Racing, Parx should have ever so gradually began cutting back
Preciado's stall allocation.

My feeling here is that a gradual reduction in stalls (as opposed to banishment),
which eventually would have resulted in Preciado leaving voluntarily, would have
been much less susceptible to challenge in the courts than the "death penalty"
which Parx imposed.