THREE-TIME Group 1 winner Best Solution returns to action in the Sun Racing September Stakes at Kempton today.

A real flag-bearer for Saeed bin Suroor last summer, he won the Princess of Wales’s Stakes, Grosser Preis Von Berlin and Grosser Preis Von Baden before heading to Australia.

His winning spree continued with a narrow victory in the prestigious Caulfield Cup, but he has not been seen since finishing eighth in the Melbourne Cup.

The Godolphin handler said: “He had a great season last year, but also a very tough season, so we gave him a long break and this is just a start back for him.

“He’s in good condition, this is the start for him before we begin to look at Group 1s again.

“He’s not going to Australia this year. We’ll see how he runs in this and then decide on his future.”

Another well-travelled runner is Andrew Balding’s Pivoine, who had his last outing in America, where he was not disgraced in fifth place in the Arlington Million.

Before that he had won the John Smith’s Diamond Jubilee Cup at York in July.

Balding commented: “He’s got form on the Polytrack. Whether he’s quite as good at mile and a half as he is at a mile and a quarter, I don’t know, but we’ll find that out.”

Roger Varian saddles two in Gibbs Hill, who ran well to finish fourth in a valuable race at York last month, and Rasima, a listed winner last season who has failed to reproduce that this term.

“Gibbs Hill has got good synthetic form. He likes the track and the trip, but we will just have to see how he goes,” said Varian.

“Rasima has not quite fired this year, but you could argue her two runs in the Hoppings Stakes at Newcastle have been her best bits of lifetime form.”