diff --git a/lib/notifier.js b/lib/notifier.js
index a108a553..fe2bf1ff 100755
--- a/lib/notifier.js
+++ b/lib/notifier.js
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ const notifyModule = ((() => {
       this.operation = null
       this.paused = null
       this.canelSent = false
+      // a cancel sent whose own callback has not run yet, and what waits for it to run
+      this.cancelPending = false
+      this.afterCancelSteps = []
       this.prepared = null
       this.handle = null
       this.cancelToken = null
@@ -181,7 +184,26 @@ const notifyModule = ((() => {
           logger.debugLazy(() => `${this.queryId} issue cancel request`)
           this.cancelToken = null
           this.canelSent = true
-          this.theConnection.cancelQuery(this, cb)
+          this.cancelPending = true
+          // the cancel's callback and the HY008 from the native call in flight complete on
+          // different threads: the reader holds what that call brings back until this has run
+          const settled = (e, res) => {
+            try {
+              if (cb) {
+                cb(e, res)
+              } else if (e) {
+                this.theConnection.defaultCallback(e)
+              }
+            } finally {
+              this.settleCancel()
+            }
+          }
+          try {
+            this.theConnection.cancelQuery(this, settled)
+          } catch (e) {
+            this.settleCancel()
+            throw e
+          }
         } else {
           logger.debugLazy(() => `${this.queryId} cancel request but no statement handle`)
           this.cancelToken = {
@@ -195,6 +217,27 @@ const notifyModule = ((() => {
       }
     }
 
+    // run a step now, or once the cancel in flight has called back
+    whenCancelSettled (step) {
+      if (this.cancelPending) {
+        this.afterCancelSteps.push(step)
+      } else {
+        step()
+      }
+    }
+
+    // a tick on, so that work the cancel's callback queued (e.g. the refusal of a second
+    // cancel) still comes first
+    settleCancel () {
+      if (!this.cancelPending) return
+      this.cancelPending = false
+      const steps = this.afterCancelSteps
+      this.afterCancelSteps = []
+      if (steps.length > 0) {
+        setImmediate(() => steps.forEach(step => step()))
+      }
+    }
+
     pauseQuery () {
       this.paused = true
       if (this.queryWorker) {
diff --git a/lib/reader.js b/lib/reader.js
index b0174666..d508e61f 100755
--- a/lib/reader.js
+++ b/lib/reader.js
@@ -425,6 +425,12 @@ class Query extends BasePromises {
     })
   }
 
+  // what a native call brings back once a cancel has been sent waits for the cancel's own
+  // callback: an accepted cancel is always cancel-cb, error HY008, done, free
+  afterCancel (step) {
+    this.notify.whenCancelSettled(step)
+  }
+
   // park a step to run on resume, if paused. true when parked - or, for a paused query
   // that has been cancelled, when the query has ended instead.
   park (step) {
@@ -468,15 +474,15 @@ class Query extends BasePromises {
     if (this.park(() => this.dispatch())) return
 
     logger.traceLazy(() => `dispatch fetching rows for queryId ${this.queryId}, rowBatchSize=${this.rowBatchSize}`, this.context)
-    this.nativeGetRows(this.queryId, this.rowBatchSize).then(d => {
+    this.nativeGetRows(this.queryId, this.rowBatchSize).then(d => this.afterCancel(() => {
       logger.traceLazy(() => `dispatch received ${d?.data?.length || 0} rows for queryId ${this.queryId}, endOfRows=${d?.endOfRows} endOfResults=${d?.endOfResults}`, this.context)
       this.batchRowIndex = 0
       this.batchData = d
       this.continueBatch()
-    }).catch(err => {
+    })).catch(err => this.afterCancel(() => {
       logger.debugLazy(() => `dispatch error for queryId ${this.queryId}: ${err}`, 'DriverRead.dispatch', this.context)
       this.endOrPark(err)
-    })
+    }))
   }
 
   // emit what is left of the current batch, then fetch more, or move to the next result.
@@ -507,11 +513,11 @@ class Query extends BasePromises {
     if (this.park(() => this.nextResult())) return
     this.infoFromNextResult = false
     this.nativeNextResult(this.queryId)
-      .then(nextResultSetInfo => {
+      .then(nextResultSetInfo => this.afterCancel(() => {
         this.moveToNextResult(nextResultSetInfo)
-      }).catch(err => {
+      })).catch(err => this.afterCancel(() => {
         this.endOrPark(err)
-      })
+      }))
   }
 
   // the query has executed: report what came with it, then read on
@@ -546,9 +552,11 @@ class Query extends BasePromises {
       // the handle at once, so a cancel can reach the statement; what is emitted waits
       // for a resume, if the query was paused while it executed
       this.notify.setHandle(res.queryResult.handle)
-      const begun = () => this.begun(res)
-      if (!this.park(begun)) begun()
-    }).catch(err => {
+      this.afterCancel(() => {
+        const begun = () => this.begun(res)
+        if (!this.park(begun)) begun()
+      })
+    }).catch(err => this.afterCancel(() => {
       logger.debugLazy(() => `dispatch error for queryId ${this.queryId}: ${err}`, this.context)
       // Don't call end() here - it's already handled in beginQuery for binding errors
       try {
@@ -567,7 +575,7 @@ class Query extends BasePromises {
           this.close()
         }
       }
-    })
+    }))
     this.notify.emit('submitted', this.query, this.params)
   }
 
diff --git a/test/contract/HANDOVER.md b/test/contract/HANDOVER.md
index 1f486917..9c68399d 100644
--- a/test/contract/HANDOVER.md
+++ b/test/contract/HANDOVER.md
@@ -123,8 +123,8 @@ ODBC and has the same blind spot, so it is not a reference).
 - `QueryWorker` (direct execute) still calls back `(null, meta)` on success; info at execute
   reaches JS because `try_execute_direct` returns false on `SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO`. Works, but it
   is not the same shape as the other workers.
-- `cancel/after-error-mid-batch` shows the cancel-cb / HY008 race (about 1 in 10, on master's
-  native code too): it has an `--- or` alternative now.
+- `cancel/after-error-mid-batch` showed the cancel-cb / HY008 race (about 1 in 10, on master's
+  native code too). Fixed since: see the cancel race under Smaller items.
 
 **To review in the `info/` transcripts** (all `unreviewed`):
 - each PRINT, and each statement with no result (a DDL), is followed by `rowcount 0`; an insert
@@ -354,15 +354,14 @@ that replay covers them.
 - #483 (Linux, native) on WSL. When it is fixed, the `known-bug` Linux pins show as diffs:
   `errors/{raiserror-then-result,dup-key-d}.*.linux.txt`, `scripts/issue-478.linux.txt`,
   `cancel/after-error-mid-batch.events.linux.txt`.
-- A race in accepted cancels: the cancel's own callback (`cancel-cb ok`) and the HY008 from the
-  fetch in flight are two native completions on different threads, so either can reach JS
-  first. CI showed it on `cancel/twice-streaming-at-100`, which now has an `--- or`
-  alternative (the first in the corpus). `cancel/again-after-confirm-at-100` failed once
-  locally, probably the same race, but its transcript was not kept. Other accepted cancels
-  of a statement in flight can show it too: add the alternative when one does. Or tighten the
-  contract: hold the HY008 in JS until the cancel callback has run, so that `cancel-cb ok`
-  always comes first. That is the owner's call. Note that `capture.js --update` rewrites a file
-  from what it saw, so it drops an alternative it did not see.
+- ~~A race in accepted cancels~~, fixed (2026-10-22). The cancel's own callback (`cancel-cb ok`)
+  and the HY008 from the fetch in flight are two native completions on different threads, so
+  either could reach JS first. CI showed it on `cancel/twice-streaming-at-100`,
+  `cancel/again-after-confirm-at-100` and `scripts/issue-479`. Now, once a cancel is sent,
+  `StreamEvents` holds what a native call brings back to the reader (`afterCancel` in
+  `begin`, `dispatch`, `nextResult`) until the cancel's callback has run, then releases it a
+  tick on, after anything that callback queued. An accepted cancel is always `cancel-cb ok`,
+  `error HY008`, `done`, `free`, and the corpus no longer has `--- or` alternatives for it.
 - The 36 `unreviewed` transcripts (listed under Where we are): read them against the
   contract and agree them. `read/print-*` belong with the `info/` work above.
 
diff --git a/test/contract/corpus/cancel/after-error-mid-batch.events.txt b/test/contract/corpus/cancel/after-error-mid-batch.events.txt
index 83af1044..b8e9ff15 100644
--- a/test/contract/corpus/cancel/after-error-mid-batch.events.txt
+++ b/test/contract/corpus/cancel/after-error-mid-batch.events.txt
@@ -12,12 +12,3 @@ error HY008 0 Operation canceled more=false
 done
 free
 check ok
---- or
-submitted
-error 42000 50000 boom more=true
-action cancel
-error HY008 0 Operation canceled more=false
-cancel-cb ok
-done
-free
-check ok
diff --git a/test/contract/corpus/cancel/twice-streaming-at-100.events.txt b/test/contract/corpus/cancel/twice-streaming-at-100.events.txt
index 20722168..f9798111 100644
--- a/test/contract/corpus/cancel/twice-streaming-at-100.events.txt
+++ b/test/contract/corpus/cancel/twice-streaming-at-100.events.txt
@@ -14,14 +14,3 @@ error HY008 0 Operation canceled more=false
 done
 free
 check ok
---- or
-submitted
-meta name
-row x100
-action cancel x2
-cancel-cb error cannot cancel query (cancel already requested) id 0
-error HY008 0 Operation canceled more=false
-cancel-cb ok
-done
-free
-check ok