  Recent stellar populations and chemical abundance studies point to an
accreted origin of omega Cen. In this light, and given the retrograde, small
size orbit of omega Cen, we search for a kinematical signature left by bits
hypothetical parent galaxy in the Solar neighborhood. We analyze the
largets-to-date sample of metal poor stars (Beers et al. 2000) and we find
that, in the metallicity range -2.0 < [Fe/H] <= -1.5, a retrograde signature
that departs from the characteristics of the inner halo, and that resembles
omega Cen's orbit, can be identified.
