Logi Universe powered to a four-length victory in the $3.5 million Tokyo Yushum (Japanese Derby) on Sunday after torrential rain had turned the ground soft at Tokyo Racecourse. In victory, the Kiyoshi Hagiwara-trained son of the Sunday Silence stallion and 2003 Japanese Derby winner Neo Universe avenged his lone career defeat in the Japanese 2000 Guineas as he beat Guineas winner and 11-10 favorite Unrivaled into 12th place.

Magadan should successfully take the next step up the group-race ladder on Sunday in the 1 1/2-mile, $181,000 Grand Prix de Chantilly, one of three Group 2 races on the card at Chantilly. A son of High Chaparral trained by Elie Lellouche, Magadan has already won over the distance at the listed and Group 3 levels this season after having concluded an abbreviated 3-year-old campaign with a third-place finish behind Montmartre in the 1 1/2-mile, Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris.

Unrivaled will have to be at his best at Tokyo Racecourse on Sunday if he is to complete a classic double in the $3.5 million Tokyo Yushun, or Japanese Derby, as he has drawn widest of all in post 18 for the 1 1/2-mile test.

Conduit lost a bob of the head decision to Cima de Triomphe in the Brigadier Gerard Stakes at Sandown Park on Thursday evening, failing by a nose in his first start since landing the Breeders' Cup Turf seven months ago.

Conduit, winner of the Breeders' Cup Turf, returns to the races at Sandown Park on Thursday evening in the $103,000 Brigadier Gerard Stakes, a 1 1/4-mile, Group 3 contest in which he will spot his 12 rivals between four and seven pounds.

Again slogged on grimly to overtake Lahaleeb in the $560,000 Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh on Sunday to give Johnny Murtagh and his Coolmore bosses their second classic triumph of the weekend. This one, however, was engineered by David Wachman, whereas Saturday's Irish 2000 Guineas winner Mastercraftsman is under the care of Aidan O'Brien.

Buena Vista doubled her classic pleasure at Tokyo on Sunday as she came with her patented late run to nail Red Desire on the line in a thrilling renewal of the $2.4 million Yushun Himba, or Japanese Oaks. The daughter of Special Week thus becomes the 11th filly in history to win both the Japanese 1000 Guineas and the Japanese Oaks.

Mastercraftsman rediscovered his winning ways just in time to take classic honors in the Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh on Saturday.

Reveling in the heavy ground, the Aidan O'Brien-trained Master-craftsman cruised to a 4 1/2-length victory over Rayeni in the Group 1, $615,000 mile, a clear improvement on his fifth-place finish in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket three weeks ago.

Buena Vista's tall reputation precedes her into the $2.4 million Yushun Himba, or Japanese Oaks, at Tokyo Racecourse on Sunday. She came from last to first to win the one-mile Japanese 1000 Guineas last month, a performance so impressive it had some observers touting her as the filly version of Deep Impact, the winner of the Japanese Triple Crown in 2005 and widely regarded as the greatest racehorse Japan has ever produced.

Sixteen fillies will line up for the $611,000 Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh on Sunday, but only four of them appear to be Group 1 caliber at this stage. Again, a daughter of Danehill Dancer who was a two-time group race winner last summer on the same soft ground she will encounter in Sunday's classic mile, merits a favorite's chance, but the David Wachman trainee has been away from the races since Oct. 5 when she was an inexplicable 14th of 16 in the Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp.