After working for Jonathan Sheppard, Wesley Ward, Jerry Hollendorfer and Richard Mandella, and galloping horses for Todd Pletcher, trainer Lauren Hobson has been around her share of stakes-winning horses.

She just has never had one of her own since taking out her license in 2023.

That’s something the 43-year-old from England hopes will finally change on Saturday at Monmouth Park, when she sends out Rebel With a Cause in the $100,000 My Frenchman Stakes.

“It would be a huge milestone for me,” she said.

Rebel With a Cause heads into the Saturday feature for 3-year-olds at 5½ furlongs on the turf off a fourth-place finish in the William Walker Stakes at Churchill Downs on May 9, his fourth career start and second on the grass. The gelded son of Leinster, owned by Tristar Farm, broke his maiden at five furlongs on the turf at Gulfstream on Feb. 13.

“It was a good effort,” said Robson of the William Walker Stakes. “He ran against some pretty good horses. Outfielder (the race winner) was just much the best. But I thought Rebel With a Cause ran well and proved he can compete with open stakes horses.”

Rebel With a Cause will mark Robson’s first Monmouth Park starter and her third stakes try after 96 career starters (and 15 wins). Crevalle d’Oro finished fourth in the Grade 3 Goldikova Stakes at Del Mar last year.

Rebel With a Cause, she feels, has stakes-winning potential.

“There was definitely turf in his pedigree,” she said. “We just thought we’d give it a shot on the dirt and get a race into him (for his first career start last year). He had a really bad trip his first start. There was a horse that broke down and bumped into it. He had no shot after that. It was game over.

“But when we worked on Gulfstream on the synthetic he was like a monster. He was outworking any horse there. He was really impressive on the synthetic. It was like he was a different horse. So it was worth a shot trying him on the grass and he has taken to it.”

The My Frenchman has attracted a field of eight. Jose Ferrer has the mount on Rebel With a Cause.

For Robson, a stakes win would get her more traction for her 20-horse stable based in Kentucky. She came to the United States from England in 2004 and started working for a Who’s Who of trainers, four of whom are in the Racing Hall of Fame.

“I worked for all different kinds of training styles. It was fun to learn from those big guys,” she said. “I tried to take a lit bit from all of them.”

Robson basically went out on her own on a whim in 2023.

“I had a couple of horses of my own then,” she said. “I just thought I’d give it a shot after playing around with them. I wasn’t thinking too big. I just wanted to give it a try with what I had.

“I could expand a little bit but I don’t want my stable to be huge. I like to be hands on and getting on my own horses. If you get too big you lose your attention to detail. If I had too many horses, I probably wouldn’t be able to get on my own horses. There would be too much going on. I do think it’s an asset right now that I can still get on my own horses.”

After going 0-for-8 in 2023, she saddled her first winner on Feb. 15, 2024.

“I came to Kentucky (as a base) to experience it and feel it out,” she said. “It’s a good place to be able to ship out of. I can ship to Colonial, Saratoga, Monmouth. I might send horses to Del Mar. It’s not a bad ship from here.”