In 2001, we headed back to western Pennsylvania and Ohio to rescue seventeen horses, mostly used-up Standardbreds and Draft Horses from Amish farms. Also that year, Equine Advocates participated in an undercover investigation with The Pittsburgh Channel, one of that areas most watched television news programs. In that investigation, an individual known as "The Meat Man" who paid cash for Thoroughbreds no longer able to compete at Mountaineer Park in West Virginia, was shown stockpiling the horses at a nearby farm and then selling them for meat at the Sugar Creek slaughter auction in Sugar Creek, Ohio every week. Equine Advocates rescued three Thoroughbreds and an aged mule from the sale that day. The Thoroughbreds, two mares and a gelding, had come right off the track and were completely sound - just not fast enough to compete anymore. "The old Molly Mule looked so sad, as though she was resigned to fate," said EA President, Susan Wagner. "We just had to get her out of there." The mule was adopted by a Pennsylvanian woman where she enjoyed a loving home until her passing five years later.