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neck from Deep Sky, Vodka, Matsurida Gogh and Oken Bruce Lee. After the race Demuro said "We had decided to mark
Matsurida Gogh as he always gets a nice position. The only thing I had been concerned about was the start, but he broke well and the slow pace meant we could move in and get a good position easily... he is a very competitive horse. When he lines up with other horses, he really battles to stay ahead of them". Shikato commented "My heart was just pounding until he was over the finish line... With each race he seemed to rise to meet the level of his opponents".
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On 30 November Screen Hero contested the 28th running of the Japan Cup in front of a 102,567 crowd at Tokyo and started a 40/1 outsider in a seventeen-runner field. Before the race
Shikato commented "He's getting better with each race. He knows how to race, so I'm not particularly concerned about the
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Screen Hero raced eleven times and won two races as a three-year-old in 2007. On his seasonal debut he recorded his first victory when he won a maiden over 1800 metres on dirt at
Nakayama in January, beating Berg Missile and fourteen others. In February he finished third at Tokyo and then won a minor
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on 1 July and produced his best effort to date as he finished second of the sixteen runners behind the New
Zealand-bred Roc de Cambes. In his two remaining races of 2007 he ran unplaced in the Grade III Niigata Kinen and finished third to Roc de Cambes in the Grade II St Lite Kinen over 2200 metres
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Screen Hero tracked the leaders as the outsider Never
Bouchon set a slow pace. Matsurida Gogh took the lead in the straight but Screen Hero produced a powerful late run to take the lead 150 metres from the post. In a blanket finish he won by half a length, three quarters of a length, a head and a
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on 16 August 2008 and recorded his best win up to that time as he defeated B B Falcon and nine others. In his next two races he finished second to
Biennale over 2600 metres at Sapporo in September and was then beaten a nose by Jaguar Mail in the October Stakes over 2400 metres at Tokyo.
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Fuji TV Spring Stakes and finished fifth behind Flying Apple before competing on dirt for the last time and finishing second over 1800 metres at
Nakyama. After being beaten in two races on turf at Tokyo he was moved back into Grade III class for the Radio Nikkei Sho at
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with Vodka in third and Oken Bruce Lee, Dream
Journey, Matsurida Gogh and Asakusa Kings among the unplaced horses. On his final run of the year, he attempted to repeat his 2008 success in the Japan Cup but finished thirteenth of the eighteen runners behind Vodka.
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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
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By late autumn, Susumu Yano had retired and Screen Hero entered the stable of the first-season trainer Yuichi
Shikato. On 9 November he was ridden by
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Screen Hero remained in training as a five-year-old but failed to win in five races. In the spring he ran fourth behind Asakusa Kings in the
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4 × 4 to Hail To Reason and Northern Dancer, meaning that both of these stallions appear twice in the fourth generation of his pedigree.
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clear of Jaguar Mail with Al Nasrain a neck away in third.
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when he contested the Copa Republica Argentina, a Grade II
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Pedigree of Screen Hero (JPN), chestnut stallion, 2004
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