DUAL Olympic gold medallist, VFL footballer, Kings Cup rower, accomplished boxer and breeder of Golden Slipper winning racehorse, Royal Parma.
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Laurie Morgan ticked all five boxes and more in a lifetime which barely rates a mention from an era of Olympic household names including Dawn Fraser, Herb Elliott and Murray Rose.
Even the heroic exploits of Bill Roycroft, who discharged himself from hospital to help Australia win its first gold medal in the equestrian three-day event at the 1960 Rome Olympics, casts a long shadow over the deeds of his team-mate and captain.
But Morgan, who spent two seasons playing for Yarrawonga in the Ovens and Murray Football League, can lay claims to being Australia's finest all-round sportsman.
After growing up in the North East near Yea, Morgan led the Australian equestrian team to its first Olympic gold medal in an event which Culcairn's Andrew Hoy later won three successive golds in at Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney.
Morgan was also Australia's first gold medallist in the individual three-day event in a feat which went some way to erasing bitter disappointment of not representing his country at the 1956 Olympics.
He is the only man to play VFL/AFL and win an Olympic gold medal with his football career taking off after playing the 1935-36 seasons for Yarrawonga.
Morgan, aged 17, was working as a jackaroo on a relatives' property near Cobram after an abrupt end to his school days and a short-lived attempt to join the Victoria police force.
He made an immediate mark playing in the ruck for the Pigeons and was soon on the radar of Richmond.
But legendary Tiger Jack Dyer had a mortgage on the ruck position and Morgan opted to join Fitzroy where one of the O and M's finest exports, Haydn Bunton, had already won three Brownlow medals.
Morgan played just 36 VFL matches in a brief career for the Lions before turning his attention to breeding horses with his wife Anne on a property near Alexandra before they moved to the Hunter Valley.
An introduction to the sport of polocrosse placed Morgan on the cusp of Olympic selection in 1956 when the equestrian events had to be held in Stockholm with quarantine regulations preventing them being staged in Australia.
His son Warwick, also an accomplished horseman who also travels Australia an equine dentist, penned his father's biography in 2010 titled Too Tough To Lose.
Warwick attended the 1960 Rome Olympics as a 17-year-old and four years earlier joined his family on a boat voyage from Australia to England with a horse his father hoped he would be riding in the Olympics.
"You go through living life as a family and you think that is normal," he said.
"But when I got to about 50 I realised for the first time what I had done with my family was pretty extraordinary.
"I also realised my father as a sportsman was very extraordinary to.
"Anyone who had come near him is 'Snowy' Baker."
Baker represented Australia at the London Games in 1908 in swimming, diving and boxing where he won a silver medal in the middle-weight division.
He also represented Australia in rugby union, but Morgan's two gold medals trumps his deeds.
In the intensely fickle world of equestrian, Morgan said his father's age and personality counted against him being selected in 1956.
"He was a terribly competitive sportsman," he said.
"He showed that in his football by one day chasing an opposition player off the field and trying to bash him up in the changerooms when he played for Fitzroy.
"He also played polo and played polo like he played AFL.
"But some people just didn't like him."
In an ironic twist discovered many years later, Morgan's three-day event team-mate, the late Bill Roycroft, grew up at nearby Flowerdale.
The other member of the team which rode its way into the record books were Neale Lavis and Brian Crago, but unfortunately the latter's horse had to be withdrawn after the cross-country stage.
There were bigger dramas to overcome with Roycroft taking a tumble during the cross-country and being taken to hospital with a broken shoulder and severe concussion.
The Australian team was in danger of being forced out of the competition, but on the urgings of his captain, Roycroft defied doctor's to return for show-jumping section in an enduring famous Olympic moment.
Morgan's near fault-less round on the final day clinched team and individual gold.
"Australian media have an obsession with the person who has had some amazing thing happen to them," his son said.
"It's what happened with Bill Roycroft, but as the manager of the team said, they would never have won a gold medal without my father.
"It had a lot to do with his sheer determination as captain of a team he ran like a football team.
"He also had control of all the feeding of the horses and that played an enormous part in them being super fit.
"They could have won the Melbourne Cup they were all so fit."
Morgan's horse Salad Days was an eight-year-old which is considered young for an Olympic gold-medal winning horse.
Morgan missed out on selection for the 1964 Tokyo Games before turning his attention to running a large cattle station, Balbirini, in the Northern Territory.
His son worked alongside him on the sprawling property.
"We had an enormous amount of confrontation with the locals and my dad's answer to that was always his fists," he said.
"It's what Territorians really understood."
Morgan died in 1997, aged 82, at Castlemaine.
His two gold medals are the closest claim Yarrawonga-Mulwala have to Olympic glory.
But all that could change at the Rio Games with homegrown James Willett the world No.1 double trap shooter.