One of my trips over to The Cox Plate in the early 2000s, I came across an elderly man in his 80s wearing an old suit from the 1950s and with large binoculars around his neck. I started chatting with him and he told me that he had been to nearly every Cox Plate for the previous 40 years. The race book had previous winners of The Cox Plate going back through the decades, so I asked him about all of the past winners from the 60s and 70s.
When we got to Daryl's Joy, he told me that his win in the Cox Plate was not the most memorable, it was when Darryl's Joy beat Vain in a sprint race in early spring 1969. Vain was seen as a Champion as he was undefeated winning the major two-year-old races the season before. A capacity crowd turned out to watch Vain win, he was at 10 to 1 on.
Vain was duly beaten by Daryl's Joy and he noted that the 40k in attendance were stunned into silence. It was like everyone had turned up for a funeral.