outrider vs pacer

outrider

noun
  • A guide or escort, especially one who rides in advance. 

  • A forerunner. 

  • One who rides out on horseback to inspect a ranch etc. 

pacer

noun
  • One who paces. 

  • A mechanical pencil. 

  • In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter. 

  • A pacemaker (one who sets the pace in a race). 

How often have the words outrider and pacer occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )