A Happy Wednesday music festival and a pyrotechnics show will provide the backdrop for Wednesday night’s season finale at Happy Valley, where the fight for the Tony Cruz Award will go down to the wire and the curtain will come down on Benno Yung Tin-pang’s training career.

The season’s Champion Griffin will also be crowned, with Sky Jewellery, Crossborderpegasus and Magnifique in the running, and there will be a jockeys’ parade on the track so fans can interact with their favourite riders and maybe even score a horse plushie.

Matthew Poon Ming-fai (36 winners) leads the Tony Cruz Award standings but the race to be anointed the campaign’s most successful local jockey is one of the most hotly contested in years, with Matthew Chadwick (35) and Derek Leung Ka-chun (34) in hot pursuit.

Yung saddles up four runners as he looks to add to his 360 successes across 12 seasons training in the Hong Kong pressure cooker, with last-start winner Endued perhaps the veteran handler’s best chance on the night in the Class Four Super Oasis Handicap (1,650m).

Endued jumps from gate eight under Hugh Bowman and will carry 134 pounds after a sharp Sha Tin victory earlier this month.

Yung will also have high hopes for last-start runner-up Speedy Smartie in the Class Five Silver Grecian Handicap (1,200m), while Stormi switches from dirt to turf for the Class Four Turin Redsun Handicap (1,800m).

Yung’s final career runner comes in the night’s feature, the Class Two Lucky Patch Handicap (1,200m), as Aeris Nova chases a first success in the grade.

Also finishing up at the midweek meeting are Antoine Hamelin, Alfred Chan Ka-hei and Ben Thompson, with the latter having three chances to add to his Sunday success aboard All’s Well before returning to Australia.

Storming Dragon looks to be Thompson’s best chance in the Class Three Sun Jewellery Handicap (1,200m), while he also rides Sportic Warrior and Night Purosangue.

Hamelin has punched home 111 winners across more than five seasons in Hong Kong and he has been in top form late in his stint.

He has a seven-strong book at the season’s 88th and final meeting, headlined by impressive last-start winner Victor The Rapid on the quick backup in the Sun Jewellery Handicap.

The Frenchman also partners Winning Money, California Blitz, Floof, Great Legacy, Courier Aladdin and Senor Toba before returning to his homeland.

The retiring Chan reappears for his farewell after not riding in a race since February, with the 31-year-old joining forces with the smart Magic Control in the Class Two feature and old friend Sugar Sugar in the season’s last race.