Knows a zany Austrian, keeping horses originally from place in Central Asia (6)
I believe the answer is:
kazakh
'place in central asia' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'knows a zany austrian keeping horses originally' is the wordplay.
'knows' becomes 'k' (this might be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'originally' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letters of 'zany austrian keeping horses' is 'zakh'.
'k'+'a'+'zakh'='KAZAKH'
'from' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for kazakh that I've seen before include "Citizen of a former Soviet republic" , "Native of large landlocked country in Central Asia" , "Native of a central Asian country" , "Native of the world's largest landlocked country, capital Astana" .)