Here is a number that jumps off the page: trap 5 at Thurles Park has won five of its last ten races, a 50 per cent strike rate. To put that in context, the average win rate for any single trap at the track sits at 16.7 per cent, so trap 5 is currently winning three times more often than you would expect by chance.
A word of caution before anyone gets carried away. Ten races is a small sample, and a run of five wins from ten can come from normal variation as easily as from a genuine, lasting bias. One quiet week and that 50 per cent could tumble back towards the average. So treat this as a live trend worth watching rather than a banker to bet blind.
That said, when a wider trap outperforms over even a short run, it usually points to something about the track geometry: a kink in the rail, a bend that suits a dog drawn off the fence, or a run-up that lets the five-seed find its stride before the first turn. If that is what is happening at Thurles, the edge could hold. The practical takeaway is simple. If you are weighing up a Thurles card, give any well-fancied trap 5 runner an extra look, but keep checking whether the trend survives the next handful of meetings before leaning on it too hard.