 For his significant contribution to the sport of horse racing, MacBeth received the Avelino Gomez Memorial Award and the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award.A resident of Reddick, Florida at the time of his passing in 1987, the following year MacBeth was inducted posthumously into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame.After doing a show at a racetrack near Minneapolis, Minnesota, devoted fan and sometime racehorse owner, comedic actor Tim Conway had wanted to donate his fee to help former jockeys experiencing hard times but learned that no such fund existed.