 After sustaining his only defeat in the Prix Niel in September, he was retired to stud where he was a successful sire of winners.Nashwan was a large, powerfully built chestnut horse with a white star and a white sock on his right foreleg bred by his owner Hamdan Al Maktoum at his Shadwell Farm in Lexington, Kentucky.He was sired by the 1977 Poule d'Essai des Poulains winner Blushing Groom.