Mel was lucky horse No. 400.

The 13-year-old, 13-hand black Paso Fino gelding was recently adopted by a woman in Lincoln, Neb., making him the 400th horse to be adopted via The Horse.com's free listing service.

"He left my house on the 14th of May on a Friday night and got there on Sunday evening," said previous owner Stephanie Snyder of Westminster, Md. She said Mel left Maryland and traveled through Virginia, Texas and Oklahoma before arriving in Nebraska.

Snyder said the new owner told her that Mel was loaded on and off the trailer so many times that when he was finally loaded off in Nebraska, he backed way and seemed to say he was not getting back on