Board fence, electric tape fence would be my choice. Electric tape being the cheapest. If you use T-posts, put those plastic caps on the tops.

No barb wire, electric wire or pagewire fence. All hazards to your horse.

If expense wasn't a factor then the vinyl fencing would  be the way to go. IMO.

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Where did you find the vinyl covered wire?  We have barbed wire now and I want to replace it.  Wood won't work (if the termites don't get it the vandals would.   A guy up the road had 60 foot of fence stolen one night.) and I don't want to use a field fence because it's such a pain to keep the grass out of it.  I want something easy to mow under.

We have the white electric poly tape with white vinyl t-post covers that surrounds the house area and divides the pastures.  It looks good but I wouldn't put it up again.  

We originally went with four strands because of raising foals at the time but eventually we removed the bottom strand because of having to keep up below the fence trimming and spraying weeds.  

We have problems with deer and onetime an extreme wind totally stretched it out of place.  Another problem is the white turned gray and greenish in more shaded areas.  Had a few times when the electric fence charger had problems and I had one horse that would walk over the bottom strand and would raise the top strand with her head and walk thru when the electric was off. 

If I had to do it all over again, I'd go with the mesh fencing made for horses with the small openings and then put the electric poly tape on top.  I think it'd be less maintenance and with the white poly tape, visible to the horse.

You can buy the Coated High Tension Wire from Kencove. http://www.kencove.com/ShopItemIG.php?item=Wire+Coated

I've had it on my property for 10 years. I set post at 25 feet.  Drilled the post and pulled the wire through, four strands on my fence. Used the manufactures terminators ( like a chinese finger trap) on the end post.  I keep one strand of hot wire on the inside to keep the horses from poking there heads through the fence.

Depending how you install it, you may want or not want the bonded wire. The bonded wire is REALLY hard to peel the coating off the inner wire. The finger traps I used at the termination need the coating removed, so it was a pain to use the bonded with them. If you are going to wrap the post on clinch then the bonded is fine.

One draw back with drilling and threading the wire through the post is if you break off a post, you need to undo the fence to replace the post. But I choose that over stapling at every post.

Thanks.  I think I've seen it then. 

Sorry it took so long to get back to you.  We had a tornado go through our pasture and take out 2 barns (one with horses in it, no one hurt though) and lots of misquite trees.  Not the brushy stuff I wanted to remove, but trees that were 2 1/2 and 3 feet thick.  It was hard watching those old trees come down.

It has been our experience that pipe makes the best and safest horse fencing. The can chew on boards and they also break. If the pipe is welded and cemented in the ground you have a nice solid exclosure. I have seen a combination of pipe and no climb but the no climb seems to stretch and bulge. Barbwire is awful. I agree that red brand makes the best wire products, my husband is a fence contractor and build fences for large cattle companies and horse ranches. Good luck!

I wanted to add that I do not mean pipe panels, they are great temp but not solid enough for some horses for a permanent enclosure.

We use the electric ribbon tape to cross fence our pasture's.  It's really easy to move and re-configure pasture's.  Got it from Tractor Supply.  Just remember when using ribbon tape, it has to have a twist in it to keep it from sagging. 

All our horses respect it, even the babies.