Pendragon wrote:
Besides I personally have always found it the other way round (seeing this on several shows on my own), namely that KNN accepts a lot ZfdP would not take. Knabstruppers with ZfdP branding and later judged by KNN are generally found of top quality, especially when it comes to stallions already licenced by ZfdP. Just to mention a few: Verbandspremium Pegasus vom Niehaus-Hof (now in USA and awarded KNN first premium), Nobodys Harlequin (branded ZfdP high foal premium, now in the U.K. and awarded KNN first premium), Verbandspremium Thore vom Pferdehof (now in the U.K. and awarded KNN first premium), etc..
I am aware of some people saying this and some saying that. I do also know that ZfdP still has to fight with a bad reputation resulting of some 17 years ago, when the present breeding director of ECHA, was the breeding director of ZfdP...

The big  problem is the fight between the ZfdP and RPSI, not the KNN.  Many of the Knabstrupper inspections and registrations here in the USA are done by RPSI, who have far more inspections than the KNN do.
 RPSI will not always recognize the ZfdP stallions and have in the past refused to register foals by ZfdP stallions. This leaves the foals owners with a problem.  They either have to find and go to an KNN inspection of they don't get papers.
 And this is HUGE country, and Knabstruppers are very new and not that many, so oit can be very hard and very expensive for a foal owner to have to haul their foal many, many hours across country  to a KNN inspection, if they can find one.
 Can you get an assurance from the RPSI that they will inspect and register the foals from Hussar? That would go a long way towards encouraging people to breed to him.
MW