problem with date not displaying in output

I have this in my template

<perch:content id="racecourse" type="text" label="Racecourse name" html="false" required="true" title="false" /></br>
       <perch:content id="date" type="date" label="Date of race" title="true" format="D d F y" required="true" >

but the date does not show in html output - nothing there at all.

in Perch yes I can see the date field and yes it is being picked up as a title item Just not output in html