Essex rider Danny Buchan has retained his Sunflower Trophy crown at the Irish championship short circuit meeting at Bishopscourt in County Down.

Riding an MSS Kawasaki, Buchan won the feature event of the meeting from Alastair Seeley and Keith Farmer.

Buchan also won the opening Superbike race of the day, with Clogher man Farmer second and Seeley in third spot.

Glenn Irwin took the flag from Gearlink Kawasaki team-mate Ben Wilson in the Supersports and also won the Supertwin.

Irwin was on board a Kawasaki 650 prepared by John Burrows’s BE Cookstown Racing team.

In the main Sunflower race, Nico Mawhinney, Wilson and Irwin made up the top six leaderboard.

Former British Superstock 1000cc champion Buchan began the day in style by seeing off Morello Kawasaki mounted Farmer in the Superbike event, with Seeley, on a Tyco BMW, having to settle for the final podium place.