four outriders

"Provided, of course, you had an escort of at least four outriders.

He waited, four outriders anxious-faced beside him, for his second-in-command.

In the rear of this carriage were four outriders still in the scarlet, but without spears.

What I had taken to be merely a group of four outriders had actually been a gathering of Ubars of the Wagon Peoples.

Two of the four outriders stood near the stone water trough sharing a flask with the stable clerk, while a third guffawed and clapped a groom on the shoulder, as if sharing in a private joke.

Chuckwagon racing is a team event, led by a driver who commands a team of horses pulling the chuckwagon, and is supported by two or four outriders, each racing individual thoroughbred horses that follow the chuckwagon.