old hand vs workhorse

old hand

noun
  • A person who is experienced at a certain activity. 

workhorse

noun
  • Anyone or anything that does a lot of work; something or someone who works consistently or regularly. 

  • A horse used primarily for manual labor; a draft horse. 

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