As with much in life, reaction to the recently released Maryland Stadium Authority study regarding the future of Baltimore's Pimlico Race Course depends on one's point-of-view.
Advocates for having a racetrack named Pimlico on Northern Parkway in order to keep the Preakness Stakes in the city proper will see the stadium authority's study as a plausible blueprint.
Meanwhile, dispassionate skeptics will judge some of the study as an exercise in building castles in the sky, and a less sentimental reading of its findings reinforces the notion that the Preakness probably should be moved to Maryland's other race track, Laurel Park.
