Screen Hero

Screen Hero
Screen Hero at Tokyo Racecourse
Sire	Grass Wonder
Grandsire	Silver Hawk
Dam	Running Heroine
Damsire	Sunday Silence
Sex	Stallion
Foaled	18 April 2004
Country	Japan
Colour	Chestnut
Breeder	Shadai Farm
Owner	Teruya Yoshida
Trainer	Susumu Yano Yuichi Shikato
Record	23: 5-6-2
Earnings	¥503,403,000
Major wins
Copa Republica Argentina (2008) Japan Cup (2008)
Awards
JRA Award for Best Older Male Horse (2008)

Screen Hero (Japanese スクリーンヒーロー, foaled 18 April 2004) is a Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse and sire best known for winning the 2008 Japan Cup. In his first two seasons he showed above-average racing ability, winning two races and being placed at Grade II level but appeared to be some way behind the best horses in Japan. After a lengthy absence he emerged as a top-class racehorse as a four-year-old in 2008, winning the Grade II Copa Republica Argentina before recording a 40/1 upset victory in the Japan Cup. He failed to win in the following year and his racing career was ended by a serious leg injury at the end of the season. He has had early success as a breeding stallion.

Screen Hero is a chestnut horse with a white star and two white socks standing 15.3½ hands high, bred by the Yoshida family's Shadai Farm. He is one of the best horses sired by the Kentucky-bred stallion Grass Wonder whose wins included the Asahi Hai Futurity Stakes, the Takarazuka Kinen and two runnings of the Arima Kinen. Screen Hero's dam Running Heroine (a daughter of Sunday Silence) finished unplaced in both of her races in 1996. Running Heroine's dam Dyna Actress was a top-class racemare who won the Sprinters Stakes and was the JRA Award for Best Older Filly or Mare in 1987 and 1988. She was descended from the influential French-bred broodmare La Troienne.

During his racing career Screen Hero was owned by Teruya Yoshida and was initially trained by Susumu Yano.