Loot `n' Run proved he was more than a wet-tracker when he led to win at Caulfield on Saturday.

Trainer Jason Warren, who last year spelled the five-year-old gelding over the summer, tried a different tack this year to see how he could perform on dry tracks.

Loot `n' Run's six previous wins had come on slow or heavy tracks, but now he can pencil in a win on a dead track, which was upgraded to good after the race, following the $31 outsider's front-running effort in the CFV Great Strides Handicap.

Assistant trainer Mitchell Beer said it was a gamble to run the Dash For Cash gelding at this time of year but it's one that's paid off.

"He has deserved a Saturday win to his name for a very long time," Beer said.

Loot `n' Run was too strong for challenges thrown out by second placegetter The Peak ($12) to win by a half head with the favourite The New Boy ($2.25) a short neck away third.

Owner Mark Wilson said the skull and crossbones motif carried by jockey Katelyn Mallyon came about because that was the design of his first-ever tattoo, inked on one of his legs.