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Yeah I'd be very careful. Abused horses can either be wonderful or a handful depending. My old barn always used to take in malnourished and/or abused horses. If it's a horse that's really really under weight, you never know what you're going to get once you put weight on them. We took in one horse who was about a 3 on a scale from 1 to 10, and that's being generous. He was great once we put weight on him. But same thing with a TB mare. She was as tractable as could be when she was under weight, gentle, and sweet. But as soon as she got up to weight and feeling good she was nuts. Afraid of everything and everyone, and spooky and kinda dangerous. Granted it wasn't her fault, but...
Does he look abused? What do mean by abandoned? Left in a field somewhere, or just unwanted?

Not sure. An add my husband found in a bargin book. He wanted to go look at her but talked himself out of it. The owner of the stables went shopping last week. She's got about a dozen horses coming in and wants him to look at a couple. She knows what he is looking for so who knows?