Screen Hero was born in 2004. He is by Grass Wonder out of Running Heroine by Sunday Silence.
Screen Hero was awarded Best Older Horse in Japan in 2008. He was plagued by injury in his early racing career, but captured the Grade 1 Japan Cup at 4, beating Grade 1 winners such as Vodka, Deep Sky, and Meisho Samson.
Screen Hero entered stud in Japan in 2010. In 2020 Win Marilyn won the Grade 2 Flora Stakes and finished 2nd in the Grade 1 Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks). In 2021 Win Marilyn took the Grade 2 Nikkei Sho and the Grade 2 All Comers, and Cool Cat won the Grade 2 Flora Stakes. Among his other best progeny are Japanese Horse of the Year Maurice, who won six Grade or Group 1 races including the Hong Kong Cup, and Tenno Sho (autumn); and Gold Actor, who won the Grade 1 Arima Kinen (Grand Prix).
Tenno Sho(autumn)(2016)
Arima Kinen(2015)
Screen Hero was awarded Best Older Horse in Japan in 2008. He was plagued by injury in his early racing career, but captured the Grade 1 Japan Cup at 4, beating Grade 1 winners such as Vodka, Deep Sky, and Meisho Samson.
Screen Hero entered stud in Japan in 2010. In 2020 Win Marilyn won the Grade 2 Flora Stakes and finished 2nd in the Grade 1 Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks). In 2021 Win Marilyn took the Grade 2 Nikkei Sho and the Grade 2 All Comers, and Cool Cat won the Grade 2 Flora Stakes. Among his other best progeny are Japanese Horse of the Year Maurice, who won six Grade or Group 1 races including the Hong Kong Cup, and Tenno Sho (autumn); and Gold Actor, who won the Grade 1 Arima Kinen (Grand Prix).