In the early 1900’s, Queensland was the place for goats. They were used for food, for their skin and for racing. Children would hitch their ‘Billy Goat Cart’ to a single racing goat and compete at organised events.  Large sums of money were often illegally bet on the outcome and stories of nobbling were rife.  The Goat Race Mural is a comic representation of a major Goat Race that was conducted at the Shamrock Hotel in Maryborough in 1900. It was estimated that between five hundred and six hundred people gathered to watch the spectacle.  Gallagher’s Billy won the double after a vastly entertaining afternoon in which several goat carts veered off course or tumbled over, dumping their drivers in the gutter. The Shamrock Hotel was burnt down in 1910 and replaced with a two story wooden building.  This was remodelled in 1952 with a brick exterior wall.