THE famed cerise silks of the Ingham family return to racing at Rosehill today. The patriarch and co-founder of the famed Woodlands Stud empire, now under the Darley Stud banner, took time out yesterday from a ferocious Friday schedule to talk about the return.

The Rosehill Guineas has been a worthy battleground for Australia's greats, none more gallant than Octagonal, carrying Darren Beadman, with the cerise, in 1996.

OMENS point to Portillo in the Sweet Embrace Stakes at Royal Randwick today in what could be the last throw of the dice for Bob Ingham's Woodlands Stud cerise to figure in the Golden Slipper at Rosehill on April 19.

The new trainer for the famous 'cerise' stable will chase winners all over the place, John Schell writes.

John Hawkes decided it was time but he believes the winners in cerise will still flow, reports John Schell.