Margaret and Michael Banks are roped into an illegal scheme involving these events in John Hawkes’s novel The Lime Twig. In a work centering on one of these events, the narrator injures everyone at his restaurant table when he tries to mace the head waiter. That work centering on one of these events begins with the narrator meeting Jimbo at an airport bar. In one story, the protagonist gets into a partnership involving these events with the gardener Bassett. One work’s narrator expects the Black Panthers to attack while at one of these events with the illustrator Ralph Steadman. The boy Paul uses a toy to predict the winners of these events (10[2])in a story by D. H. (10[1])Lawrence. For 10 points, Hunter S. Thompson wrote about what kind of sporting event in the article “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved”? ■END■