The cases of Nash and Nijinsky are, however,
exceptional, and many people with schizophrenia are intensely disabled by their symptoms.
He was so impressed by seeing the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky perform with the Ballets Russes that he met the company's founder,
Sergei Diaghilev, and asked to work with him.
One of the main reasons no
horses have won the triple crown since Nijinsky is that the third race at St. Leger
is so long that many owners don't attempt to race their horses at it, as it may diminish their stud value in the future.