Early season and the first meeting in particular are difficult to predict.
Many riders will have brand new equipment and how it performs in anger can play a big part (just look at Tungate for Belle Vue)
Coming through the meeting unscathed is probably as important as the result but agree with AS that a home loss in this group and that team is almost certainly out.
Confident that all will be well and the Witched will run out winners by at least 12