The _morality_ and aggregate of _virtues_ so peculiarly appertaining to the profession, being placed in the back-ground of the picture; admitting in this, as in all others, that there are men of strict honor, and unsullied integrity, who do not deviate from the path of rectitude in private transactions; yet the broad road of _temptation_ is a dangerous track, and very few there are who are able to withstand it. It is a long-standing maxim, that "those who play at bowls must expect rubs:" so those who make the embarkation, must abide the consequence. Certain it is, that the business (or rather _art_) of TRAINING, was never before brought to its present pitch of perfection; but the expence is (with the collaterals attendant upon it) so _enormous_, that nothing but an immensity of wealth can stand against it. Training has of late years undergone many changes, and much refinement; but in none more than the early age at which COLTS and FILLIES are brought to the _post_. Very far within the knowledge of the present generation, no colt was ever taken in hand till he was three years old to be made quiet for breaking; and he was never thought capable of being brought to the post for a racing contest, previous to some part of his fifth year. On the contrary, many are now taken in hand at _eighteen months_ old; some few run a short match before they have attained the second year; more run when rising three: and plates, subscriptions, and sweepstakes, are common for three year olds from one extremity of the kingdom to the other.