#TrendingNow for November 12
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Find out what culture vultures and horse racing royalty have to say about what’s #TrendingNow!
This week’s featured guests are: Jamie Newell, Jeff Lowe, Peter Isacksen, & Angie Fenton.
Favorite app?
Favorite winter sport to watch?
Best accessory to bring to the racetrack?
Best moment at this year's Breeders' Cup?
Jamie Newell
Photographer for Horsephotos.com. Cinephile, traveling fiend, and greasy spoon connoisseur. Really wants to see Jack White perform "My Old Kentucky Home" at the next Kentucky Derby.
Follow on Twitter: @wowhorse
Evernote is a phenomenal app for organizing your notes and web clippings. It syncs from your phone and computer so you have all of your notes, all the time. Indispensable for writers!
Horse racing, of course! They run in the snow, so it counts, right?
My camera — but maybe that's a given as a photographer. My iPhone is probably second, because I can keep track of the races and check Twitter for live news about the contenders.
It's so hard to choose just one, but I was most excited when my picks Will Take Charge and Mucho Macho Man finished 1-2 in the Classic. So happy for Macho's connections, and stoked WTC could show everyone what he was made of on the biggest stage. Can't wait to see them back next year!
Jeff Lowe
Jeff Lowe is media director for Team Valor International, the racing partnership that bred and raced Kentucky Derby and Dubai World Cup winner Animal Kingdom. He previously was a long-time writer for Thoroughbred Times.
Follow on Twitter:
@jeffwlowe, @teamvalor
Equibase's "Today's Racing" is great, I use it a lot.
Love college basketball, which is kind of a given living in Kentucky.
iPad
I've always liked Beholder, and Team Valor bought her half sister to breed to Animal Kingdom this year, so seeing her dominate that field for the Distaff was a real thrill.
Peter Isacksen
Peter is an American actor, producer ad director. He is probably best known for his role as Seaman Pruitt in the TV series CPO Sharkey, which ran from 1976 until 1978
Follow on Twitter: @norwegianPI
Yelp
Bobsled
I always bring my Red Sox jacket for good luck, even if it is hot
My favorite moment is the pageantry before the start. Racing does it best.
Angie Fenton
Angie Fenton is a freelance writer, TV reporter for WHAS11, the ABC affiliate in Louisville, Ky., and has served as the on-camera host on Oaks and Derby Day at Churchill Downs since 2008.
Follow on Twitter: @angiefenton
It's a three-way tie. I love AudioNote, which has made conducting and transcribing interviews for print articles so much more efficient. I use Flashlight every day at least once because one of my three dogs likes to hide in dark places. And I can't stop playing Dots.
Shovel racing. One of my goals is to move from spectator to participant at least once.
Flats. I interviewed Bo Derek before attending my first Breeders' Cup and asked her for a few fashion tips. She essentially said it's all about being classy and comfortable - and wear flat boots. I can't do that at the Kentucky Derby, but I do carry a pair of roll-up ballet slippers in my purse for when I can't take the heels anymore.
Watching Gary Stevens win with Mucho Macho Man by a nose, knowing it was his first Breeder' Cup Classic win and Kathy Ritvo had just become the first female trainer to win that race. Oh, and hearing Richie Sambora play "Call to the Post" on his guitar was quite a moment, too. I am definitely a fan of his, but I can think of 20 different songs I'd rather hear him play.