Marv, I thought I'd reply to you directly. Let me give you a lengthy discussion of this horses past as I have been told. He's a 5 year old Arabian gelding. Was raised totally feral until the age of 4, last July, when the ranch liquidated and they sold the horses.
Humans are unknown and untrusted, etc.
He's an AQHA reining trainer who accomplished nothing in 4 months other than to get a halter on the horse and have him drag a 12 ft. lead rope since the horse couldn't be caught directly. He also must not have spent much time with this horse in hand leading, as he preferred to run the horse from stall, to run, to corral, to pasture and back again. The owner found out and removed the horse after 4 months to a friends house to be trained. There was no training done, as the horse contracted strangles during this time and just was there to recover. During this time, the first owner decided he was unsalvageable for her and too much of a project and the horse was sold to a young gal.