If for some reason you feel like giving yourself a headache then just start examining this evening's fixture at Dundalk.

A bumper eight races, 125 runners and four intensely-competitive handicaps is the sort of cocktail guaranteed to make one reach for the aspirin, but on a night of complexities it's a relief to be able to look at the opening maiden hurdle and see the reassuring name of Super Fellow.

Charlie Swan's mount has been knocking around in this sort of race to some effect through the winter and while he has yet to break his hurdling duck, it surely will be just a matter of time before he does. This evening looks to be his time.

Super Fellow started favourite to win his maiden at Naas a month ago but could only manage to run third to Tower Project and Mantles Prince. Before that he was runner-up to Flagship Uberalles at Navan, form which the winner has since boosted considerably, and while there is always a fear that such a horse will invariably find one to beat him, it's hard to find one on the book this time to beat Super Fellow.

The feature on the card is the £8,000 Carroll Trophy Handicap Hurdle where the Punchestown winner Gazalani tops the weights, and this factor makes one look beyond the Oliver Brady-trained gelding. Aidan O'Brien's Glorious Gale has won his last three but it's debatable what he has beaten and it's 11 months since his last hurdling appearance. Ardrina represents Ferdy Murphy and takes a half-mile hike back in trip from a second to Spirit Dancer at Punchestown but on the soft ground, Livin' Joy is lurking nicely at the bottom of the handicap on 10st 3lbs and is better off at the weights for beating Gazalani at Navan last time.

The other jackpot races look trappy in the extreme but Vintage Display and Final Reminder represent in-form stables and are suggested for the divisions of the Cooley Handicap while Ballyellery can appreciate the jump up to the mile of the Mountain Handicap judged on a fourth to One Won One at Navan. At that same Navan meet last Monday, Victor Boy ran well for a long way before fading close home in a bumper behind Coolaness. That good claiming rider Tom Gibney again takes the mount this evening and Victor Boy is preferred to West Of Waikiki and Eagle Vail.

Crystal Wind looks an obvious form book choice for the mile maiden but why not take a chance that one of John Oxx's representatives will surprise the likely favourite.

Deysaniya is a newcomer by Lycius out of a French winner but John Murtagh has elected to partner the Imperial Frontier filly Buddy And Soda and she at least has the benefit of a run at the Curragh last September.

Kincara Palace has been given the go-ahead by trainer Aidan O'Brien to run in Sunday's Group One Dubai Poule d'Essai des Pouliches, the French 1,000 Guineas, at Longchamp. Seamus Heffernan will ride the filly who last Saturday beat the Moyglare runner-up Heed My Warning in the Curragh's Athasi Stakes.