Five years ago, Sabine Rouas, 43, met Aston when she started helping out at a nearby cow farm near Verdun, northern France. She formed a close bond with the newborn calf – then called M309 – and convinced the farmer to let her buy him and save him from slaughter.
Sabine then raised him alongside her pony Sammy, now 10, and noticed the baby cow was picking up the tricks she was teaching her new horse. Now Aston does the same things as horses and train alongside other horses.