diff --git a/go/delivery/delivery.go b/go/delivery/delivery.go
index bd84f9c..62af7fc 100644
--- a/go/delivery/delivery.go
+++ b/go/delivery/delivery.go
@@ -369,6 +369,31 @@ type Have struct {
 	// slot that holds it, so a provider and a consumer of one value on one node each keep their own. Written in Sealed's
 	// place by a node-engine that knows it; Sealed is read only from a have written before.
 	SealedAt Seals `json:"sealed-at,omitempty"`
+	// PullWait is, on a failed have, the pull from a store its apply failed on and waits on that store's holder to settle
+	// for (design 51 *What a pull meets in the swap*, issue 1966 ENG-9): nil on every other have, and on a failure that
+	// waits on no holder.
+	PullWait *PullWait `json:"pull-wait,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// PullWait is the pull a failed apply met from a store: the image, the seat it came through and that seat's holder, whose
+// settled the apply is tried again on, when the pull began, and when the apply was last tried again with what triggered
+// it, in words (empty while it has not been).
+type PullWait struct {
+	Image     string    `json:"image"`
+	Seat      string    `json:"seat,omitempty"`
+	Holder    string    `json:"holder"`
+	Began     time.Time `json:"began"`
+	Retried   string    `json:"retried,omitempty"`
+	RetriedAt time.Time `json:"retried-at,omitzero"`
+}
+
+// samePullWait says whether two pull waits are the same, their times compared as instants.
+func samePullWait(a, b *PullWait) bool {
+	if a == nil || b == nil {
+		return a == b
+	}
+	return a.Image == b.Image && a.Seat == b.Seat && a.Holder == b.Holder && a.Began.Equal(b.Began) &&
+		a.Retried == b.Retried && a.RetriedAt.Equal(b.RetriedAt)
 }
 
 // UserListWritten is the bus's user list as the node-engine of the bus node wrote it to the bus module's file, applied
@@ -488,6 +513,9 @@ func (h Have) check() error {
 		if h.Judgement != "" || h.Waits != "" || h.BuildAlone {
 			return fmt.Errorf("delivery: only a have waiting for a yes names a judgement, the composition waiting and whether it changes the build alone")
 		}
+		if h.PullWait != nil && h.Phase != PhaseFailed {
+			return fmt.Errorf("delivery: only a failed have names the pull it waits on, not one %s", h.Phase)
+		}
 	case PhaseWaitingYes:
 		if h.Judgement != JudgedRecreates && h.Judgement != JudgedMovesData && h.Judgement != JudgedCannot {
 			return fmt.Errorf("delivery: a have waiting for a yes names the judgement %q, not recreates, moves-data or cannot-judge", h.Judgement)
@@ -498,6 +526,9 @@ func (h Have) check() error {
 	default:
 		return fmt.Errorf("delivery: phase %q is not backing-up, applying, checking, running, failed, removed, held or waiting-yes", h.Phase)
 	}
+	if w := h.PullWait; w != nil && (w.Image == "" || w.Holder == "") {
+		return fmt.Errorf("delivery: a have's pull wait names no image or no holder")
+	}
 	if h.Composed != "" {
 		if err := checkDigest(h.Composed, "the have's composition digest"); err != nil {
 			return err
@@ -601,6 +632,10 @@ func DecodePulse(data []byte) (Pulse, error) {
 func SameHave(a, b Have) bool {
 	ua, ub := a.UserList, b.UserList
 	a.UserList, b.UserList = nil, nil
+	if !samePullWait(a.PullWait, b.PullWait) {
+		return false
+	}
+	a.PullWait, b.PullWait = nil, nil
 	if !slices.Equal(a.Sealed, b.Sealed) || !maps.Equal(a.SealedAt, b.SealedAt) {
 		return false
 	}
diff --git a/go/delivery/delivery_test.go b/go/delivery/delivery_test.go
index c54fdbd..f292a01 100644
--- a/go/delivery/delivery_test.go
+++ b/go/delivery/delivery_test.go
@@ -452,6 +452,35 @@ func TestSame(t *testing.T) {
 	} else if back, err := DecodeHave(raw); err != nil || !SameHave(back, sa) {
 		t.Errorf("sealed values do not travel: %+v, %v", back, err)
 	}
+	// A failed have carries the pull it waits on, compared by what it says (issue 1966 ENG-9); only a failed one does.
+	began := time.Date(2026, 11, 4, 14, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+	pa, pb := a, a
+	pa.Phase, pb.Phase = PhaseFailed, PhaseFailed
+	pa.PullWait = &PullWait{Image: "reg/x@sha256:1", Seat: "container-image-registry", Holder: "distribution", Began: began,
+		Retried: "distribution settled", RetriedAt: began.Add(time.Minute)}
+	w := *pa.PullWait
+	w.Began, w.RetriedAt = began.In(time.Local), w.RetriedAt.In(time.Local)
+	pb.PullWait = &w
+	if !SameHave(pa, pb) || SameHave(pa, Have{V: 1, Build: "b", Phase: PhaseFailed, Health: HealthOK}) {
+		t.Error("equal pull waits differ, or one said and one not are the same")
+	}
+	if raw, err := EncodeHave(pa); err != nil {
+		t.Error(err)
+	} else if back, err := DecodeHave(raw); err != nil || !SameHave(back, pa) {
+		t.Errorf("a pull wait does not travel: %+v, %v", back, err)
+	}
+	pb.PullWait = &PullWait{Image: "reg/x@sha256:1", Holder: "distribution", Began: began}
+	if SameHave(pa, pb) {
+		t.Error("pull waits retried and not are the same")
+	}
+	for name, h := range map[string]Have{
+		"on a running have": {Phase: PhaseRunning, Health: HealthOK, PullWait: pa.PullWait},
+		"naming no holder":  {Phase: PhaseFailed, Health: HealthOK, PullWait: &PullWait{Image: "reg/x@sha256:1"}},
+	} {
+		if _, err := EncodeHave(h); err == nil {
+			t.Errorf("a pull wait %s was encoded", name)
+		}
+	}
 	// The user list is compared by what it says, never by where it is held (ADR 0547 §8).
 	at := time.Date(2026, 10, 25, 21, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
 	ua, ub := a, a